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Ever wonder what it’s really like to be an immigrant on the border? What about what it’s like to be a Minuteman? The creators of The Border Film Project, a photography project like none other I’ve seen, goes beyond the images we see in mainstream media to let the two groups tell their stories in photos. I wish I would have thought of this:

We are three friends – a Rhodes Scholar, filmmaker, and a Wall Street analyst – who spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.

The project looks to portray the reality of the border and it does a great job at that. The immigrant photos are a mixed bag of strikingly “normal” everyday photos — some even showing happiness — to shocking and disturbing. They tend to photograph things around them; snakes, plants, their homes, while the Minutemen take more pictures of themselves and their activities, such as target practice and manning a radio.

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