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Maricela Mora flattens corn masa for tortillas at last Sunday’s mole dinner, a fundraiser for the Latino Photography Project. David Briggs

Juanita Romo, a participant in Gallery Route One’s Latino Photography Project for almost six years, has become more than just a proficient photographer: she’s developed a passion. Landscapes, sunsets, flowers, animals and “especially children” are often the focus of her viewfinder, as she noted while methodically scooping up balls of pale masa, a dough made of corn, and rolling them between her hands last Sunday evening.

She was making tortillas in the minutes before a…