For seven years I traveled across Mexico, interviewing and taking photographs of Mexican children, listening to their views on life, and seeing the world through their eyes. From this exploration, the project To Be A Child Again-Mexico was born, and in very quick order surpassed all expectations, with three successful books and two exhibits in Mexico City (the Children’s Museum and the Memory and Tolerance Museum). This project became a measure with which to weigh a society as complex as Mexico.

From the initial To Be A Child Again - Mexico project, two other books were conceived as a request by the Mexican Government. One was Ojos Con Alas (Eyes With Wings), which is a shorter version of the original book targeted to a younger audience. After winning several awards, 50,000 copies were published and distributed to all the public schools in the country. The second book, Religion y Libertad en los Niños de México (Religion and Freedom In The Children Of Mexico) was commissioned by The Ministry of Population, Migration, and Religious Matters, with the purpose of commemorating the Bicentennial of Mexico. This time the photographs were in color.

The project was an ambitious one: a distinct idea that would express the religious diversity of Mexico and the freedom of belief, seen through the eyes of the children. It didn’t expect to be an anthropologic study, but simply to capture the innocent glances and the simple answers –more profound than what we can imagine, of the children of varied Mexican ethnic groups.

The anecdotes regarding these three books are many, but those that remain are photographed in my heart. They are the multi-colored corners of Mexico, the impregnated friendliness of Mexican personalities, and the singularity of each child. But above all, what remains is the faith that still resides in them.