In 2005, three friends, recent university graduates Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado and Brett Huneycutt decided to document life at the US-Mexico border, which an average of 3,000 people cross illegally every day. They handed out hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups who could give them first-hand accounts: migrants risking their lives for relatively lucrative work in the US and Americans who call themselves Minutemen trying to stem that tide.
The photos that follow come from the trio’s book, Border Film Project: Migrant and Minutemen Photos from the US-Mexico Border. Huneycutt and Criado, both 25 years old and working at McKinsey and Deutsche Bank respectively, speak here to FT.com about each image.
The collection (£12.95) is published in April by Abrams.
