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Jason de León is engaged in a photo-ethnographic project on the human smuggling network across Mexico and the US border.Permalink On twitter.com
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Since 2014, the Mexican government has implemented Plan Frontera Sur ("Southern Border"), a system of discouragement to migration subcontracted by the USA.Permalink On twitter.com
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So, why photo-ethnography? Expands on work at the US border. Addresses broader audiences. Text and images do more together than either alone.Permalink On twitter.com
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... And also a point of photographic curiosity, to consider how to visualize migration and what fieldwork can do and feel like.Permalink On twitter.com
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Camera can act as a tool in ethnographic practice: a reminder of being there, a tool that forces you to get close to people.Permalink On twitter.com
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De León: "There's no one kind of smuggler, and no one is only a smuggler."Permalink On twitter.com
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De León: Having photographic subject places viewer into a relationship with them. Makes a social contract possible…On twitter.com
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… but there is a role for the ethnographer to sell the reader/viewer on the value of that relationship and the humanity fo the person being portrayed.Permalink On twitter.com
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