A Few Missing Visuals of the Crisis

Abstract

Copyright © 2020 Trustees of Indiana University • doi:10.2979/chiricu.5.1.13 Every day, the humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border deepens, and the human toll continues to rise. In late March of 2019, I traveled with two other PhD candidates from Brown University to South Texas to meet with members of RA ICES, the Dilley Pro-Bono Project, and the Holding Institute in Laredo. I documented the journey through photography with the goal of depicting spaces that remain abstract in the public imaginary and discourse of the crisis. What does a US refugee camp look like? How much light pollution does a detention center give off ? Th ese are the kinds of questions I sought to answer through a variety of photography techniques as we traveled through South Texas. A Few Missing Visuals of the Crisis