CBP’s broken photostream

Of its total length, approximately one third of the US-Mexico border is fenced.                                                                              This barrier gets fortified not only physically, but also by way of taking thousands of photos of it. By imagining it.                                                                              U.S. Customs and Border Protection was created in 2003 and in 2010 it opened its official Flickr Photostream.                                                                              As of today, it contains 15,561 photographs.                                                                              How can we brake the link established by them?                                                                              All these photos are taken from cameras installed at check points, placed high up on towers above rising walls, on flying drones, equipped with infrared lenses, producing thermal imaging.                                                                              They are pointed, targeting humans, carried by officers’ fingers triggering.                                                                              The shutter of the camera turns landscape into miles of steel, barbwire, flooding lights, and bodies into casualties, numbers of apprehensions recorded, deportations presented in briefings.