There is a feeling cumbia gives you, and Latin America has been holding onto it for years. I felt it first as a kid in Ayacucho, Peru, in the back of my family's van, where chicha — Andean cumbia — was the soundtrack of every road trip. I felt it again as a teenager in Miami, mixing cumbia with rock until both belonged to me. I feel it now in CDMX, at sonidero parties where strangers dance like they've always known each other. Patria Cumbiera is a photograph of that feeling, repeated across the continent. The series began in El Banco, Magdalena — the riverside town in Colombia where cumbia was born — and will keep moving south through Argentina, Peru, and beyond, because cumbia belongs to working people everywhere, and wherever it plays, we recognize each other as family.