ASSIGNMENTS | border walls: the u.s. & mexican border
“OUR WALL” | National Geographic Magazine | May, 2007 Civilizations seem to love walls. They have been building them for thousands of years, either to keep something out or to keep something in. History tells us that in the end they don’t work. Prompted by the U.S. government’s plan to build a “Great Wall of America,” we were assigned in 2006 to photograph along the entirety of the 1,952-mile border, from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. We worked on both sides of the line, exploring both the physical presence of various types of barriers, and how an abstract concept like border might be interpreted within the natural landscape. ASSIGNMENTS / border walls: the u.s. & mexican border
“OUR WALL” National Geographic Magazine | May, 2007
Naco, AZ
near El Centro, CA
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ
ASSIGNMENTS | border walls: the u.s. & mexican border
“OUR WALL” | National Geographic Magazine | May, 2007 Civilizations seem to love walls. They have been building them for thousands of years, either to keep something out or to keep something in. History tells us that in the end they don’t work. Prompted by the U.S. government’s plan to build a “Great Wall of America,” we were assigned in 2006 to photograph along the entirety of the 1,952-mile border, from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. We worked on both sides of the line, exploring both the physical presence of various types of barriers, and how an abstract concept like border might be interpreted within the natural landscape.