Crossings
The United States–Mexico border is neither the United States nor Mexico; it is rather a third country, ten miles wide and two thousand miles long, that lies in between. This borderland, split by the Rio Grande and the border fence, is a place of transience and crossings—of people and goods as well as of ideas and beliefs. Noted photo-journalist Alex Webb has spent decades covering the border. This collection of color images shows a terrain where cultural differences between the two countries are blurred, where industrialized efficiency meets spirituality, where wealth meets poverty, and all are transformed in the process. Webb s longtime friend and colleague Tom Miller explores the concept of the border as a third country and its transformation over the past decades.