This is a work about desolation. About pushing to the boundaries. About the sheerness of some moments of hope.  

Assembled between 1998 and 2003, the project At Your Mercies, captured on film among the narrow spaces at Las Mercedes (Mercies) Shelter located in the downtown area of Mexico City, shows solitude and misfortune. A micro-universe of women-only fragilities, and the is no randomness in this, because all the youngsters depicted are teenage mothers.

Abandoned or isolated in a more gratifying circumstance. Women of which a male presence is just a zest (some character printed in their clothes). Women that just came out of their childhood and yet they are surrounded by their children or with just a faint affection provided by their teen mates. 

The hidden face of a contemporary, between-two-centuries Mexico. An injurious photo-documental excercise performed by Cannon Bernáldez that shows the many forms of abandonment at impoverished circumstances. Fearful, with those masks of tiny gladness among the pictures characters. There is no grace here, but instead there is only the photographer sharing their intimacy, would that be the only act of solidarity until then?

José Antonio Rodríguez.