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Through David Taylor’s lens, the boundary between the United States and Mexico straddles a heroic, romantic and heavily politicized desert. In "Working the Line," Taylor’s unbiased photographs allow us to glimpse into a world of restricted access, where the border becomes a complex segregate emotionally, physically and nationally. His work documents patrol agents surveying and tracking temporary inhabitants in a terrain freckled with landmarks that allude to the iconographic notions of Hollywood’s West. These images reveal the idealized splendor of the west while simultaneously exposing the reality of this highly militarized space. We are left to question our awareness of liberty, humanity, marginal space and abandonment.

Taylor is an associate professor at New Mexico State University, where he teaches photography. His works have been shown in exhibitions at Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso; El Paso Museum of Art; SF Camerawork, San Francisco; Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO; and Northlight Gallery at Arizona State University. Taylor’s documentation of the U.S.-Mexico border has been supported by a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

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