Wild Waters and Unfulfilled Promises

Photographer Eunice Adorno captures Mexico’s aging dams as “monuments to an idea of progress that never arrived."

Image from “Las aguas eran salvajes” by Eunice Adorno. Courtesy of the Artist.

In a 2023 image by Mexican photographer Eunice Adorno, a man stands in front of a towering wall, searching for the horizon line where the concrete ends and the sky begins. It’s as though he were contemplating an ancient structure, trying to interpret its meaning.

In Mexico, as …