Peter van Agtmael USA. Brownsville. Texas. 2016. Mailbox just north of the border wall between Mexico and the USA. The intermittent wall has become a highly politicized issue, though at this point it is more symboli (...)
c than practical, as it has so many large gaps that the flow of migrants continues unabated. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A woman living in the shadow of the wall outside Brownsville. She commutes daily to work in Mexico and of the current political climate says that the racism has been longstanding in Texas and is no (...)
thing new to her. San Benito, Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A sign near the land of Pamela Taylor, an 88-year-old English-American woman who married a Mexican-American in World War II and moved to the U.S. shortly afterwards. She is opposed to illegal immi (...)
gration but also rejects the border fence as a deterrent and as an aesthetic blight. Brownsville. Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A portrait of Pamela Taylor with the binoculars she uses to look for migrants. Taylor is an 88-year-old English-American woman who married a Mexican-American in World War II and moved to the U.S. s (...)
hortly afterwards. She is opposed to illegal immigration but also rejects the border fence as a deterrent and as an aesthetic blight. Nevertheless she has a stand of drinks in front of her house for thirsty migrants passing through. Brownsville. Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A portrait of Pamela Taylor. Taylor is an 88-year-old English-American woman who married a Mexican-American in World War II and moved to the U.S. shortly afterwards. She is opposed to illegal immi (...)
gration but also rejects the border fence as a deterrent and as an aesthetic blight. Nevertheless she has a stand of drinks in front of her house for thirsty migrants passing through. Brownsville. Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael A shotgun and a bullet proof vest in the home of Pamela Taylor. Taylor is an 88-year-old English-American woman who married a Mexican-American in World War II and moved to the U.S. shortly afterwar (...)
ds. She is opposed to illegal immigration but also rejects the border fence as a deterrent and as an aesthetic blight. Nevertheless she has a stand of drinks in front of her house for thirsty migrants passing through. Brownsville. Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael USA. Brownsville. Texas. 2016. The border wall just outside of Brownsville on the land of the Nature Conservancy, home to one of two Sabel Palm groves in the United States. The fence has smalls h (...)
oles cut in it, ostensibly to continue to allow normal migratory patterns of animals who traditionally crossed the land now blocked by the fence. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Max Pons, a biologist and manager of the Nature Conservancy in Brownsville, home to one of two Sabel Palm groves in the United States. The land is bisected by a border fence, which has small holes (...)
cut in it, ostensibly to continue to allow normal migratory patterns of animals who traditionally crossed the land now blocked by the fence. Brownsville, Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos
Peter van Agtmael Tony Martinez, mayor of Brownsville, speaks at length of the absurdity of a border fence in stopping the flow of migrants and how upsetting it is to have such a personal issue so politicized given (...)
that many of the residents of Brownsville continue to have a deep cultural connection to Mexico. Brownsville. Texas, USA. 2016. © Peter van Agtmael | Magnum Photos