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Artist Statement

Featured publications | Interviews

s-La Perrera Dog Kennel_El Paso TX2020.jpg

s-Michuacan Mother and Child Living on Streets of Juarez Waiting for Asylum Juarez Mexico2020.jpg

Girl Deported_Juarez, Mexico 2021.jpeg

s-Venezuelan Woman in Limbo Waiting for Asylum on Streets of El PasoTexas 2022_Laurie Smith.jpg

s-Migrant Mother Bathing Child in the Park Awaiting Asylum Juarez 2020.jpg

Undocumented Venezuelan Migrants waiting for Asylum in front of Mural on Streets of El Paso_El Paso, Texas 2022.jpeg

Family from Michoacan with CBP One Application Seeking Asylum_Juarez, Mexico 2023.jpeg

s-Mexican Family on the Streets of Juarez Seeking Asylum_Juarez Mexico 2020.jpg

MIchoacan Family with CBP One Application at the Border_Juarez, Mexico 2023.jpeg

Migrant Mother and Child living in Downtown Alley EL Paso 2023.jpeg

Migrants Living in Streets of El Paso_El Paso, TX 2023.jpeg

s-Venezuelan Sunday Barbers in Alley at Sacred Heart_ El Paso2022.jpg

Venezuelan Migrants Getting an Haircut in Downtown El Paso Alley_El Paso, TX 2023.jpeg

Close Up of Migrant Family_El Paso, TX 2022.jpeg

Migrants Receiving Donated Clothes_El Paso, TX 2022.jpeg

Mexican Migrant Girl Released from Detention_El Paso, TX 2019.jpeg

Afghan Woman Released from ICE Detention_El Paso, TX 2025.jpeg

Haitian Boy with CBP One Application at the Border_Juarez, Mexico 2023.jpeg

Ecuadorian Family at Holy Family Shelter after Detention_El Paso, TX 2024 (1).jpeg

Guatamalan Mother and Child at Catholic Refugio, Juarez Mexico 2018.jpeg

Ecuadorian Mother and Daughter at Holy Family Shelter_El Paso, TX 2024.jpeg

Honduran Father and Son at Holy Family Refuge Center_El Paso TX 2024.jpeg

Juarez Shelter with Rooster_Juarez, Mexico 2022.jpeg

Migrant Family Under Cross at Holy Family Shelter El Paso Texas 2024.jpeg

Migrant Girl with Tiara at Shelter_El Paso, TX 2019.jpeg

Migrant Girl at Respetrans Shelter_Juarez, Mexico 2022.jpeg

Cots on Floor in Juarez Shelter_Juarez, Mexico 2022.jpeg

Migrant Boy in Holy Family Shelter after Detention_El Paso, TX 2024.jpeg

Migrant Woman at Shelter_El Paso, TX 2029.jpeg

Mother and Child in Respetrans Shelter_Juarez, Mexico 2022.jpeg

Migrant Sisters Playing Dolls at Refugio Juarez, Mexico 2022.jpeg

Nicaraguan Family in Shelter_Juarez, Mexico 2022.jpeg

In Detention 2025.jpeg

Collage-SantoToribioRomoPatronSntMigrants_USMexicoBorder22 copy.jpg

One Landscape Divided

Border Patrol Ride Along

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Join me in opening eyes to what has been happening at the border.
Be an art activist. Be loving! Be BOLD!#soloelpueblosalvaalpueblo #usmexicoborder #borderartist #noborderwall #lauriesmithphoto

This photographer’s dream come true to have my photograph “Border Wall Cutting Through the Chihuahuan Desert” selected to hang with the 99 other spectacular photos in the 12th year of @eyesonmainstreetinc.
The exhibition has been up

The photographs in this zine reveal the stark presence of a 30-foot steel bollard wall stretching across the Chihuahuan Desert. Laying bare the effects of immigration policies. The wall of inhumanity. One land divided.
My hope is to inspire art activ

“President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.” Adam Serwer for @theatlantic 2018

Millions of undocumented immigrants live every day under the weight of fear
When fear becomes the background noise of daily life, that is a human rights crisis.
“I am afraid to take my child to the hospital.”
“My kids are afraid to

Construction has begun on the border wall at the southern base of Mount Cristo Rey. This rugged stretch was long considered impractical for fencing and remained one of the last gaps in the binational metro area, spanning El Paso, Sunland Park, and Ci

I am honored to have been asked to contribute photographs from At the Border: One Land Divided to Friar Jarek Wyszoczanski’s Between Borders and Hearts: Testimonies of Service and Gratitude (Entre Fronteras y Corazones Testi

The Department of Homeland Security just waived 28 regulations—the Clean Water Act is only one—to fast-track a 150-mile border wall through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. The wall will block wildlife migration, dest

Where are they now?
And where has the soul of our country gone?

#usmexicoborder #familyseparations
#mansinhumanitytoman #lauriesmithphoto

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