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1543 | Elliot Ross and Genevieve Allison - American Backyard

In January 2017, as Donald Trump was preparing to take office as president, photographer Elliot Ross and writer Genevieve Allison decided to embark on a road trip. Over a span of five months the couple traveled the 2,000 linear miles of the United States-Mexico border in its entirety. How better to understand the heart of the issue that was vexing the country than by traversing every inch of it, talking to the people who live with it not in the abstract, but physically, every day?
Through a collection of portraiture, topographical photographs, maps and beautifully written essays, American Backyard presents a picture of the border beyond the narrative we are spoon-fed, of dispossessed migrants and angry Americans. At one point Allison likens the wall to a Richard Serra sculpture, “how it cuts through the landscape, passive and un-emphasized, structuring the environment and creating spheres of social, political and cultural relativity.”
“In an environment where the movement of both people and goods are vigilantly regulated, examined, and controlled—and where federal laws regularly don’t apply—questions of social injustice and discrimination are matters of resounding consequence. Beyond talk of The Wall, there is a larger, less transparent story to be told about our Borderlands to do with acculturation, surveillance, diversity and compassion.” E.R.

Photographs by Elliot Ross.
Cartography by Thomas Paturet.
Via Gnomic Books, The Observer.
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