Ahora que México se ha convertido en uno de los países más violentos del mundo y que el ejercicio del fotoperiodismo en nuestro país es uno de las más arriesgados del orbe, la lectura de este libro de Rebeca Monroy Nasr se convierte en una pieza muy pertinente para comprender algunas de las rutas e itinerarios trazados por los fotógrafos en el último cuarto del siglo pasado.
"The story that is addressed in these pages, covers a general and contextual analysis of documentary photography in the social movements of the late 1970s to the 1980s, and the personal account of the author (who participates in turn from a collective experience shared in this task, that led to the encounter between a language and a visual grammar, translated into images) that were in open controversy with what the State denied in their press, their reports and their newscasts." (HKB Translation) --Page 18.