Laura is a freelance photographer in Mexico for various national and international publications and has over the past few years of her life specialized in documentary photography of rural schools, refugees, migrant farm workers in the United States and Canada and the temporary displaced after natural disasters such as earthquakes.

Last year she won two separate grants to document the life and work of mirgant Mexican farm workers in rural Canada -- one from a bilateral Mexican-Canadian fund and another from Light Work, a non-profit fund for photographers based in Syracruse, New York state.

Past honors include being invited to the master class of the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam in 1997. Two years earlier, she won the first prize for photography for the Mexican Teachers´ Union. In 1992, she won a year-long grant to be in the program of documentary and photojournalism with the International Center of Photography in New York. Also, Laura is a past 1988 winner of the photography prize of Mexico´s National Institute of Anthropology and History.