Aperturas Fronteras

I’ve been working on a series of photos here in Tucson, and I’m finally ready to share them. It all started when we were helping the volunteers at Derechos Humanos make crosses to commemorate the number of people who have died crossing the border. I was wandering around taking photos and looked up and unassumingly took a photo of the roof of their office. As I was sifting through those pictures to add to the blog post we did, I came across that photo and noticed that the sky was so blue…almost fake. That’s when I really started to notice that there seems to be an endless supply of blue sky around here, and as I would bike around I noticed a lot of cool roof lines, signs, and plants really stand out when they are in front of the sky…and for some reason the sky seems to turn out even bluer than normal in the photos. So I set out on my bike most times to take these shots, but I also kept this series in mind whenever I had my camera with me. Most of these are from Tucson, some from the surrounding desert and parks, but all of them are photos of subjects in front of the blue sky…or, en frente del cielo azul.