Surveillance Occupation in the U.S. Borderlands: A Narrative Photo Essay by Colter Thomas and Dugan Meyer

"The border has become the next war zone for the military industrial complex.”

Remote Video Surveillance System (RVSS) relocatable tower; 26.1528155, -98.3529541 (south of Mission, TX); January 2024. Photograph by Colter Thomas.

In March 2023, Dugan Meyer, a University of Arizona geographer, and Tucson-based photographer Colter Thomas began a photographic project titled Infrastructures of Control: Visualizing Security and Surveilla…