Twin Cities Torn Apart:
A Story about the U.S.–Mexico Border
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A collaborative visual public scholarship project documenting the human consequences of the March 2020 border closure for the twin cities of Matamoros and Brownsville. Working with photographer Cecilia Nava and artist Mario Jiménez Díaz, this project captured how families were separated and communities were fractured by policies that treated the border as a public health tool. Published in Borders in Globalization Review (2020), it represents an early iteration of the community-engaged, visually grounded approach that now defines La Querencia Lab's work.
This is the story of two cities on the U.S.-Mexico border, the cities of Brownsville and Matamoros.
“The 20th of March of 2020, in response to the global pandemic the United States and Mexico governments agreed to temporarily close the border to nonessential travel, turning border cities apart...”
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Project in collaboration with Mario Jiménez Díaz
Photography: Cecilia Nava
Music: Nathaniel Rateliff / Raúl Folk
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September 10, 2020
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