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Atascosa Borderlands

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Atascosa Borderlands is a transdisciplinary storytelling project combining documentary photography, oral history, botanical survey, digital archivization, and interactive design. Since 2017, Jack Dash (naturalist and writer) and Luke Swenson (documentary photographer) have worked with ecologists, environmental conservationists, cattle ranchers, humanitarian aid workers, migrants, deer hunters, ex-border patrol agents, and Indigenous community members to unearth and share the stories of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands. The project educates a global audience on what could be lost if action is not taken to heal the biological and cultural rifts that threaten the communities and landscapes of the region.

Featured Media

Arid landscape with a long winding road.
Arid mountains with high clouds in background.
Man in white cowboy hat inspecting border wall.
Man in shorts and navy blue shirt standing in a field with arid mountains in distance.
Four men in cowboy hats holding down a calf for branding.
Lonely urban area near a border wall with barbed wire and brick buildings.
An older couple with a large Irish Wolfhound standing on a large outcropping in the desert.
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Courtesy of Atascosa Borderlands Project
Courtesy of Atascosa Borderlands Project
Courtesy of Atascosa Borderlands Project
Courtesy of Atascosa Borderlands Project
Courtesy of Atascosa Borderlands Project
Courtesy of Atascosa Borderlands Project
Atascosa Borderlands is fiscally sponsored by the Social Good Fund