In early 2024, Isabelle Hayeur began documenting border areas of the United States, focusing mainly on southern California. At that time, the country was seeing a record number of illegal border crossings; the border patrols were clearly overwhelmed and the detention centres were inundated by the flood of migrants. Designed for an orderly migration process, the American system was folding under the weight of so many illegal entries, leaving the new arrivals in a dehumanizing limbo. Humanitarian… more