| Summary: | Based on the work of two Mexican photographers who started out as photojournalists in the nineteen-eighties, notably at La Jornada, this article questions the look directed at a border that has undergone great changes over the last 40 years. Elsa Medina was La Jornada’s correspondent in Tijuana towards the end of the 1990s. She photographed the Mexican North-West border for some twenty years, during her frequent trips to this border town. She pictures a line that has become vertical with time, through various US administrations that have built miles and miles of wall along the border. A few years ago, Francisco Mata Rosas undertook a long-term project entitled “La línea”, centered on the physical and human geography of this space, from West to East. He extended this project by taking photographs using cameras mounted on drones, highlighting the immensity of the physical scar that separated both countries today.
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