MEXICAN GHOSTS A Tension between Governmental Talks and Disappearances

In February 2020, Emmanuelle Corne was in Veracruz, Mexico, as a documentary photographer, along with anthropologist Sabrina Melenotte, to follow the 5th National Brigade for the Search of Disappeared Persons. The number of people missing in Mexico is officially up to 100,000, mostly due to narco-trafficking. Two hundred family members meet every year to search together for their loved ones as the state official forces do not. Between 2006, starting point of the war against drug cartels, it is said that around 250,000 persons died violently, in context of organized crime. The talks of the 3 Presidents of the Republic of Mexico you hear are public datas. The persons on the photographs are family members of the disappeared. They search by themselves for their loved one, mostly with shovel for digging up the earth, but also by making their case visible in the streets. Those photographs were taken in February 2020.The sounds, audios, and interviews were recorded by Emmanuelle Corne on field. All photographs are by Emmanuelle Corne. FMSH, Médias & sciences production, 202