Albertina and Yaquelin Contreras, a mother and daughter who were separated for nearly six weeks by U.S. authorities in 2018 to have entered the country from Mexico attended the State of The Union. Senator Jeff Merkley, who invited them, have seen their potrtait on the cover of feb. 2019 Time Magazine. Albertina, 27, and her daughter, who turns 12 on Feb. 5, were featured on TIME magazine’s Feb. 4 cover as part of a special report on global migration, to which I contributed with my portraits.