Meeting the Artists Along the US–Mexico Border

*This is a double dose of beauty and art. Border artists and their art, and the photos themselves. The story is that there’s more going on along the border, other than militias, walls and immigration politics. VL

By Laura C. Mallonee, Hyperallergic

For the past six years, German photographer Stefan Falke has been traveling the 2,000-mile-long border between the US and Mexico, meeting local artists and taking their pictures. The resulting series, La Frontera, offers a welcome reprieve from the media reports and rumors of violence that surround the area today.

In May, Edition Faust published a German-language book about the project, and many of Falke’s images will be on display at Photoville in New York, [beginning in September]. We spoke with Falke about his expansive project, the artists he met along the way, and how the border wall has impacted cultural life for them.

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[Photo courtesy Stefan Falke]

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