Racial Profiling
is a portrait series created in collaboration with Marina García-Vásquez of the NY Mex and the City collective, documenting the diversity of contemporary Mexican identity in the US and the complex connections between Mexicans and their adopted country. Over five years, Carlos Álvarez-Montero built an archive of more than 100 portraits — not of the most successful, but of the most interesting.
The title stems from a shared experience: the uncomfortable “you don’t look Mexican” both received in New York. A reminder that identity cannot be reduced to a stereotype.
