Lara Shipley – Desire Lines
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- Category: Book
- Topic: Photography
- Publisher: Overlapse
- Country: UK
- Language: English
- Release: 2023
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Thread
- Size: 17 x 22.5
- Pages: 208
Desire Lines follows old and new movements through the desert landscape of the Sonoran borderlands of the United States and Mexico: paths taken by migrants and border agents, of missionaries and conquistadors, of indigenous people and industrialists. The messy and at times violent collision of peoples has created a region that defies the harmfully simplistic narratives so frequently attributed to our borders.
Shipley’s photographs focus on the disorienting experience of this landscape – a place of beauty or danger depending on the perspective of those moving through it. Deceptively empty, the landscape is under constant watch, heavily surveilled and controlled, with an ever-increasing military presence that has seeped into the lives of residents in surrounding communities.