| Summary: | From the Pacific Ocean, on the beaches of Tijuana, to the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), in the Gulf of Mexico, there are 3,180 kilometers of diversity not only of the border line but of passage, culture, aesthetics, ways of living together, origins and customs. This is because people from all over Mexico and from different countries migrate to this area, either temporarily or to enrich this plurality. Francisco Mata Rosas (Mexico 1958) is an intellectual photographer, an innovative artist and a tireless perfectionist. He is never entirely satisfied. The book on the US-Mexico border is a publishing gem, its cover and edition are the work of the great editor and photographer Jorge Lépez Vela who in complicity with the author, designed a beautiful book-object with thousands of combinations for their visual narrative. The book contains more than 200 images inside and allows more than 25,000 reading combinations by the way it is presented. It has color and black and white images that Mata made over a decade on the subject, traveling back and forth the three thousand kilometers of border that separate the United States from Mexico. His route covers from Tijuana to Matamoros, passing through all the important cities of the border on both sides. The protagonists of this adventure are the migrants, the landscapes, the dead women of Juárez and the details that divide both nations. But it also Mota integrates a visual narrative that fuses a shared border culture.
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