Moon Journey represents the collaborative endeavors of Claudia Smigrod, photographer, Jake Dingman, writer, Sam Singman, musician, and the staff of Pyracantha Press; John Risseeuw, Dan Mayer, and Patrick Vincent. Claudia's photographs were generated…
Without water, the landscape cannot sustain the urban or agricultural development typical of the Rio Grande Valley. The topography is entirely arid desert. The border is marked by 276 permanent monuments covering 698 miles from Monument No. 1 to the…
View of Monument 40, in corner of New Mexico border running east to west and north to south. A fence runs behind the monument while vegetation populates the space behind it.
Monument No. 210, looking southwest, near the Gray's Well area west of Yuma, Arizona. Although early monuments were equipped with flagpoles, this pole is used to mark the boundary under shifting sands. Even with the extension, the monument is often…