Jessica Lutz

Multimedia Journalist

Jessica Lutz is a documentarian based in Far West Texas. Her photographic work has become a visual ethnography of the Big Bend region and the borderlands along the Rio Grande. Assignments can be seen in Texas Monthly, New York Times, Black & White Magazine, Mother Jones and Al Jazeera among other publications. She is currently co-producing a PBS series about regional issues that shed light on global affairs. In her spare time, she spends time exploring the Rio Grande by boat and restoring an old adobe home along the border.

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Remembering The Porvenir Massacre More Than 100 Years Later

The Sierra Pilares in Mexico tower over rolling hills near where the Porvenir Massacre happened a century ago. (Jessica Lutz / IWMF Adelante Reporting Initiative ) By Diana Nguyen In the early 1900s, a tragic…
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Ceremony Brings together Original Peoples to Address Mexico’s Colonial Past

Framed by Apache ribbons and the Mexican Flag, Bernarda Holguín commences the Ceremony Del Perdón or Forgiveness Ceremony. Photo by Jessica Lutz In a remote part of Mexico this month, Apache men, women, and children…