Crossings: Mexico and New York.

• Author: Kamber, Michael

These photographs were taken in Mexico and the U.S. by journalist Michael Kamber, who followed 18-year-old Roberto as he left his small village of Zapotitlan de Salinas, in the southern state of Puebla, to move to the Bronx in New York City. Some were previously published to accompany a three-part series on immigration in the Village Voice in April 2001.

Roberto and his family in their home in Zapotitlan. Most of Zapotitlan's dwellings are under construction, funded by remittances sent by relatives in New York. Mexicans abroad sent $14 billion to Mexico in 2003, according to the Inter-American Dialogue, and others estimate the total was as high as $15 billion.

Roberto has been working since age 13, in a slaughterhouse, in a workshop making onyx figurines, and in the mines themselves.

U.S. Border Patrol.

At the Mexico-Arizona border near Nogales.

Of Zapotitlan's 4,500 natives, 1,500--including nearly all of the...