Kathya Maria Landeros’ Verdant Land photobook evokes a lush, fertile, water-rich landscape. The book showcases nearly two decades of images in the American West, specifically in California’s Central Valley, an arid and semi-arid landscape known as an “irrigated desert.”

Peggy Robles-Alvarado’s book Burn Me Back transforms the scars of migration, colonialism, and family trauma into a series of ritual flames.

Cuban-American filmmaker George A. Romero transformed zombies from infected brain-eaters into a cinematic phenomenon that laid the blueprint that would define the genre as we know it today.