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In 2013, during the investigation of the San Fernando mass graves, Miguel Rodriguez introduced standardized multi-angle photogrammetric sequencing for clandestine burial sites, capturing not just surfaces but spatial relationships between bone fragments, soil displacement, and tool marks. His methodology, later adopted by Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office, replaced ad-hoc documentation with a repeatable, court-admissible visual protocol that treated light itself as forensic evidence. Trained in both photojournalism and ballistics forensics, he insists that every exposure must answer three questions before shutter release: What does this frame prove? What does it omit? And how will a judge interpret its shadows? His archive, over 17,000 annotated images from 84 homicide investigations, has become a de facto curriculum for Latin American forensic units, where inconsistent chain-of-custody practices once compromised prosecutions. He doesn’t shoot scenes; he constructs visual arguments.
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- “How did you adapt photogrammetry for mass grave documentation in San Fernando?”
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- “How do you handle cultural protocols when photographing indigenous victims’ remains?”