Since April of 2002 Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu has been documenting the lives of young Puerto Rican women and their families living on 103rd Street in Spanish Harlem. This neighborhood, only a few blocks away from the affluent Upper East Side, seems like another country. Fathers and brothers are often absent from the family unit. Girls reaffirm their existence through maternity and drop out of high school to become mothers at an early age. Women are the pillars of the community, and often the main source of vitality in family life. These strong young women of the block represent the potential elements of change in this society.
Adriana is the recipient of the NPPA Nikon Sabbatical Grant in 2006, she currently divides her time between New York and Barcelona, Spain.