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05-Shadows and Light at the Wall Mexico-New Mexico Border 2018.jpeg

Asylum Seekers at the Wall_Juarez, Mexico 2022_Laurie Smith.jpeg

Bandera at the Wall_Chihuahuita Neighborhood, El Paso, TX 2019.jpeg

Border Wall in Backyard_Chihuahuita Neighborhood, El Paso, TX 2019.jpeg

Border Wall Stretching Eastward.jpeg

Border Wall with Clouds in Horizon_Santa Teresa, NM 2020.jpeg

Boy with Horse on the Banks of the Rio Bravo at the Wall_Juarez, Mexico 2019.jpeg

Breach at the Wall_El Paso, TX 2021.jpeg

Breaches in the Wall_Santa Teresa, NM 2023.jpeg

Close Up of Boy with Horse in front of the Border Wall, Juarez 2018.jpeg

Donald Trump y Su Pinche Muro_Anapra, Mexico 2019.jpeg

Eyes Through the Wall_El Paso-Juarez Border 2023_Laurie Smith.jpeg

Fuck Trump y Su Pinche Muro_Juarez Mexico 2025.jpeg

Girl at the Wall, Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Hand of Border Patrol at the Wall_El Paso, TX 2022.jpeg

Hands Through the Wall_Anapra, NM 2018.jpeg

Headlights at the Wall_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Mexican Children Crossing the Rio Bravo at the Wall_Juarez, Mexico 2019.jpeg

Migrants at Border Wall Seeking Asylum_El Paso, TX 2022.jpeg

Mount Cristo Rey from the Juarez, Mexico Side of the Wall 2019.jpeg

Mt. Cristo Rey and Tires Pulling the Drag_Anapra NM 2025.jpeg

On Patrol at the Wall_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Pecan Grove at the Wall_Fabens, TX 2018.jpeg

Photographing the Wall Mexico_Santa Teresa, NM 2020.jpeg

Prickley Pears at the Wall_El Paso, TX 2019.jpeg

s-Ecuadorian Family at the Wall El Paso 2022 2.jpg

s-Migrants Requesting Asylum from Border Patrol at the Wall_El Paso-Juarez 2022.jpg

s-Venezuelans lined up at the Breach in the Wall El Paso 2022.jpg

Saguaro at the Wall, 2020, Arizona-Mexico border.jpeg

Santo Muerto at the Wall_Juarez, Mexico 2025.jpeg

Santo Muerto Patron Saint of Cartels at the Wall_Juarez, Mexico 2025.jpeg

Silouette of Razor Wire at the Wall_El Paso, TX.jpeg

Starry Night at the Wall Santa Teresa NM 2019.jpeg

Stash House with Rebar Ladders at the Base of Cristo Rey_Juarez, Mexico 2025.jpeg

Swimming Toward the Wall_Juarez, Mexico 2019.jpeg

The Wall at the Base of Cristo Rey_Juarez Mexico 2025.jpg

Trains and Walls at the Base of Mt. Cristo Rey_Anapra, NM 2025.jpeg

Venezuelan Encampmet on Juarez, Mexico Side of the Rio Bravo 2022.jpeg

Venezuelans Seeking Asylum at Breach in the Wall_El Paso, TX 2022.jpeg

Vertical of Ecuadorian Family Seeking Asylum at the Wall_El Paso, TX 2022.jpeg

Walls Can Be Climbed_Anapra, NM 2018.jpeg

X Marks the Spot_Anapra, NM 2021.jpeg

One Landscape Divided

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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