Photographing Veteranos and Veteranas

Xavier Tavera has made it his mission to document Latino veterans who’ve been overlooked by the history books and how have at times “felt invisible.” Tavera is a Mexican-born photographer living in Minnesota who can relate to some of those veteranos and veterans because he has felt some of that invisibility as an immigrant. “A portrait is made not only by me, but by two people, the people that I’m photographing and me,” Tavera said. “It’s a relationship and it’s a collaboration."