Border Film Project: Photos by Migrants & Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico Border (edition 2007)

by Rudy Adler

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Border Film Project is an effort to simplify and humanise the complexities of immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border by telling stories that no news piece, policy debate or academic study can convey. Three friends spent three months along the U.S.-Mexico border distributing hundreds of cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and American Minutemen trying to stop them. The cameras were distributed in pre-addressed envelopes and were collected at a P.O. Box in Arizona. They received over 2000 photographs, the best of which will appear in this book.… (more)

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Title:	Border Film Project: Photos by Migrants & Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Authors:	Rudy Adler
Info:	Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (2007), Hardcover, 176 pages
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Border Film Project: Photos by Migrants & Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Rudy Adler

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I'm sorry this was a library book, because I'd like to have it to sit and stare at the photos for longer. It is interesting to see how some of the migrants' photos suggest adventure, since I think of this migration as being all about hardship. And my sympathy towards the Minutemen developed as I read their words (more than when I looked at their photos). (

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allison.sivak | Jul 4, 2011 |

Disturbing photo account of the troubles at the US-Mexico border. Cameras were distributed to immigrants looking to make the arduous journey into the United States illegally. Cameras were also given to the US Minutemen who watch the border line and contact Border Patrol when encountering a group/individual illegal. This simple book highlights a very difficult situation in the US. (

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Border Film Project is an effort to simplify and humanise the complexities of immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border by telling stories that no news piece, policy debate or academic study can convey. Three friends spent three months along the U.S.-Mexico border distributing hundreds of cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and American Minutemen trying to stop them. The cameras were distributed in pre-addressed envelopes and were collected at a P.O. Box in Arizona. They received over 2000 photographs, the best of which will appear in this book.

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