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Tijuana Mexico ..artist Ramirez Marcos 'Erre' has a studio next to the border crossing with the US. He is currently building a watch tower on top of his studio which functions as a huge pinhole camera. His tower has ICE written on the border side, which stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The tower can be seen by every car that comes to or leaves Mexico. The crossing for cars is one of the busiest in the world...While working on this long term project 'La Frontera' I want to examine the cultural and humanitarian activities on both sides of a border that keeps the United States and Mexico apart with a wall of steel already 600 miles long. The turf wars of drug cartels, arms trafficking and rampant kidnappings turned cities like Tijuana into some of the most dangerous places on earth. Despite the violence many brave artists, photographers, architects, poets, humanitarians, teachers etc live and work in the shadow of the wall on both sides and have a positive influence on this region; they are the focus of my long term project along the border. (Over time I plan to cover the entire length from the Atlantic to the Pacific, these images were taken in and around Tijuana).© Stefan Falke