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#fromthelibrary 1 – Border Film Project, Photos by Migrants and Minutemen on the US – Mexico Border

A book from the shelves of the Coventry University Photography library:
Matt Johnston will be discussing this book, among others, with students in a Photo Book Club meeting next week

Border Film Project, Photos by Migrants and Minutemen on the US – Mexico Border

Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado, Brett Huneycutt
Abrams 2007
Amazon UK Link

Border Film Project, Image - Pete Lord

Not only is this a great example of how a photography book can be powerful, emotive, challenging and important, but all without a trained photographers image present. Often we forget that many times, your subject is the best person to tell the story.
– Matt

“We handed out six hundred disposable cameras to two groups on opposite sides of the U.S – Mexico border – undocumented migrants crossing the desert and American Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them”
– Border Film Project