Noted photographer Alex Webb has spent thirty
years covering the United States-Mexico border, and his work captures
the humor, pathos, paradox, and tragedy of life in the region. Alex
Webb: Crossings consists of 40 photographs that document Webb's extensive
coverage of border life since the 1970s. Webb's photographs illuminate
the precarious world of illegal border crossers: tedious waits, clandestine
travels north, detainments, and arrests. His striking visions of Tijuana,
El Paso and other legendary border towns suggest crossings that are
cultural, economic, and spiritual in nature. This body of work offers
an indelible portrait of the complex, culturally rich land of the border
where differences between the two lands are blurred, and where an atmosphere
of transience and crossings dominates.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book cataloguing the entire Crossings
project.

