Border Lord #11 by Matthew Reamer

Border Lord #11 by Matthew Reamer Matthew’s contribution to “Two Years After the Storm” examines American life in 2022 through the lens of California’s Imperial Valley. As an irrigated desert with extensive renewable energy projects, bordered to the North by the environmental catastrophe that is the Salton Sea and to the South by the towering new US/Mexico border wall, the valley is a study in contradictions and a fascinating place from which to examine a variety topics and issues that the we continue to face - environmental degradation, immigration, education, employment and the effects of the pandemic on daily life to name a few. The photographic approach is broad, but has a tendency to...View all