National Geographic 08.2019

(Axel Boer) #1
BY nina strochlic PHOTOGRAPHS BY alexia webster

IN TIJUANA, NEAR THE WORLD’S BUSIEST LAND BORDER CROSSING,
A PHOTOGRAPHER MAKES MEMORIES FOR MIGRANTS AND OTHERS PASSING BY.

Fabric and a few props
are enough for photographer
Alexia Webster to make
portrait studios on sidewalks
and near cafés. In Tijuana,
Mexico, she photographed
migrants and Mexicans
such as Gerardo Herrera
Betancourt (left), from
Mexico City, who come to
Tijuana seeking work.


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