Border Film Project

Though disposable cameras were used and not cameraphones, this project is another fascinating illustration of citizens as reporters. reBlogged from WMMNA.

For Border Film Project, Brett Huneycutt, Victoria Criado and Rudy Adler spent three months on the U.S. Mexico border filming and distributing hundreds of disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the line: undocumented migrants crossing the desert and Minutemen volunteers trying to stop them.

The aim of the project is to simplify the complexities of immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, but also to show the realities on the ground. To date, the trio has received more than 1,500 photographs and more continue to arrive everyday. The pictures tell stories that no news piece or policy debate or academic study could convey."

Related:

-- Al-Jazeera equips citizens with phones and cameras - Al-Jazeera had equipped ordinary people around Iraq with phones and cameras as the invasion got under way, anticipating that communications in Baghdad would deteriorate as the US forces closed in. As a result the station was broadcasting pictures from hotspots such as Fallujah, which openly contradicted the claims the US military was putting out."

emily | 9:11 AM | Citizens as Camera Phone Reporters |
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