One Landscape Divided — Laurie Smith Photography

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Aerial of El Paso-Juarez Borderlands 2021.jpeg

Aerial View of Wall_Juarez and El Paso, 2021.jpeg

Border Wall at the Base of Mt. Cristo Rey_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Border Wall Cutting Through Land Fill_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Border Wall in Sections_Santa Teresa, NM 2020.jpeg

Border Wall Stretching Westward.jpeg

Border Wall with Patrol Truck Cutting Through the Chihuahuan Desert_ Mexico-New Mexico Border 2021.jpeg

Death at the Wall_Mexico-New Mexico Border 2020.jpeg

Dips Along the Military Zone at the Border Wall_ Columbus, NM 2025.jpeg

Distant View of Cristo Rey and Wall from Mexico_Juarez Mexico 2025.jpeg

Section of Border Wall_Sierra Blanca, TX 2020.jpeg

Shadows of Crosses at the Border_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Shadows of the Cross at New Wall_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Silhouette of the Wall_Santa Teresa, NM 2020.jpeg

The Wall Cutting Through the Chihuahuan Desert_New Mexico-Mexico Borderlands 2025.jpeg

The Wall in Pieces_Columbus, NM 2020.jpeg

The Wall Stretching into Infinity_Mexico, New Mexico Borderland 2021.jpeg

View of Cristo Rey and the Wall from Mexico_Juarez, Mexico 2025.jpeg

View of Mt. Cristo Rey from Mexico_Juarez Mexico 2025 .jpeg

We Build the Wall at Mt. Cristo Rey El Paso TX 2021.jpeg

At the Wall

Humanitarian Crisis

Public Art - a great way to get more eyes on what a 30 foot steel bollard border wall looks like. Thank you @the_big_picture_colo for this powerful opportunity to share art with all people. #wheatpaste #publicart #publicartforall #borderwall #lauries

I’m excited to share the news that this photograph from my
One Landscape Divided series,
“Hand of Border Patrol at the Wall, El Paso Texas 2022”
has been selected for the Threshold 2025 Exhibition at CPAC November 21, 2025 &ndash

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Living in fear. Hiding. Separated from family. Torn from children. Detained. Alligator Alcatraz. Deported. El Salvador. Rwanda. Sudan. Back to dangerous homelands. Dying. In the desert. Remains in the sand. Bones bleaching in the

Trump wants the entire stretch of border wall painted black to burn the hands of those who attempt to climb it.
Homeland Security’s Kristi Noem said, “That is specifically at the request of the president, who understands that in the hot

The National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) is a US-based labor organization dedicated to improving the lives of day laborers, migrants, and low-wage workers! The network’s mission is to build leadership and power among marginalized com

Trump’s BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL designates
$46.5 BILLION for the BIG BEAUTIFUL WALL,
while the effectiveness of continuing to build a border wall is debated.

https://apnews.com/article/immigration-budget-congress-trump-bill-e37bb0a5c5ca883438db349

Honored to have “Saguaro at the Wall” selected to exhibit with such brilliantly creative photographs at the Annual @cpacphoto Members Show, curated by Anne Leighton Massoni of @hcponline. Exhibit runs through August 2nd.
#borderlandphotog

Judging by the optics, the borderland is now a war zone. Since 2016 I have driven the dirt road that abuts the border wall from El Paso, TX to Columbus, NM, on self-assigned recognizance missions to see what might unfold.  I rarely encounter a s

© Laurie Smith 2025

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