AMBOS Project: The US-Mexico Border

These are photographs I took with AMBOS Project of the different forms that the US/Mexico border takes along the 2,000 miles of the US/Mexico border from Tijuana/San Diego, California to Matamoros/Brownsville, Texas.

Also pictured below are photos of the AMBOS team as they experience the fence at the many ports of entry throughout the 3 years of our work on the ground.

Did you know that the border through the state of Texas and Mexico is delineated by the Rio Grande and is sometimes connected by a series of bridges? This means the river is at those times the central visual that represents our border, not the fence, as you move through Texas.

My hope as a photojournalist doing the work of documenting the border/life at the border is to start building an alphabet so we can learn the language of our border relations and begin understanding the very complex world that accompany these communities. Immigrants to this country are proud Mexicans who choose to live in the country they love and we are all humans who deserve to be treated with decency. Let us try to break the thought loop of misunderstanding?

About AMBOS:

AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides) was founded by Tanya Aguiñiga. AMBOS seeks to express and document border emotion through art made on opposite sides by providing a platform to bi-national artists along the border. You can support our work here.