Award-winning photo series about the politically volatile border region between Mexico and the USA
Borderlands is a documentary essay shot along the US side of the border with Mexico between 2017 and 2019, at the height of the Trump era. The series aims to develop a narration capable of going beyond the emergency perspective under which border-related issues are often presented and to transport the complexity of this 3,600 kilometers long strip of land. Crossed by migrants and travelers for decades but also inhabited by a very diverse range of souls, the borderlands seem to become a different place from the two countries they separate. Francesco Anselmi is an award winning documentary photographer living in Milan, Italy. His work focuses on border areas and the various consequences contemporary border policies are having on the people living in there. He is currently working on a long term project about border communities in the European Union. His images have been published and exhibited internationally.
Anselmi, Francesco: - Francesco Anselmi (1984) is an award winning documentary photographer living in Milan, Italy. His work focuses on border areas and the various consequences contemporary border policies are having on the people living in there. He is currently working on a long term project about border communities in the European Union. His images have been published and exhibited internationally. Anselmi graduated at The International Center of Photography in NYC receiving the New York Times Foundation Scholarship.
Biondelli, Emiliano: - Emiliano Biondelli is a Graphic Designer and Senior Lecturer based inMilan, Italy.
Cantú, Francisco: - Francisco Cantú (b. 1985) is a writer, translator, and the author of The Line Becomes a River, winner of the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction. He served as agent of United States Border Patrol between 2008 and 2012. A former Fulbright fellow, he has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Award, and an Art for Justice fellowship. His writing and translations have been featured in The New Yorker, Best American Essays, Harper's, and Guernica, as well as on This American Life. A lifelong resident of the Southwest, he now lives in Tucson, where he coordinates the Field Studies in Writing Program at the University of Arizona.
Ferri, Renata: - Renata Ferri (b. 1964, Rome, Italy), journalist, has been living in Milan since 2005. She's currently the chief Picture Editor of Io Donna, women's weekly magazine of Il Corriere della Sera and, from January 2012, she is also the picture editor of Amica, the monthly magazine of RCS MediaGroup. Ferri has been a member of the jury in many photographic awards and has edited several photographic books. Renata Ferri is currently based in Milan.
