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'I have nothing to lose': forgotten survivors of the new Wild West

Photographer Frank Blazquez tells the stories of young New Mexicans living on what feels like borrowed time

Inhaling precious breaths with a hole in his chest, a young University of New Mexico baseball player, Jackson Weller, lay on the street bleeding. He was shot to death after a night out with friends.

Two weeks prior a beloved postal worker, Jose Hernandez, was delivering on an Albuquerque route when a 17-year-old allegedly shot him following an altercation.

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