Along the Migrant Trail: A Borderlands Portrait delivers a powerful view of one of today’s most controversial journeys, the migratory passage of thousands of men, women, and children, from Mexico, Central America and other nations around the world, across the Arizona-Sonora border.
Michael Hyatt’s ground-level perspective frames the perilous trek from many vantage points, most uniquely through images of things left behind—artifacts of a journey that has become a pivotal issue in today’s national and international debate.
Hyatt’s photographs, in brilliant color and stark back-and-white discover a child’s sun-bleached dress, an American Eagle backpack lying on the parched earth, a copy of El Diario de Ana Frank with the pages blowing in the desert wind—telling a poignant story of the people who have hazarded this often fatal trip. We also see their faces and the faces of those coming to their aid, undaunted by the physical and political challenges, in an unforgettable portrait of humanity in action, preserving—and celebrating—the lives of others in need.
Below are sample photos from Along the Migrant Trail: a Borderland Portrait. Images shown below are low resolution versions of the actual photographs.
Mysterious Form Near a Migrant Camp 2005One of Alvaro Enciso’s Red Dot Memorial Crosses Altar Valley 2016Migrant Father Altar Mexico 2005SB 1070 Protest and Arrest Tucson 2010Beginning of a Migrant Trail 2004Samaritan Delle McCormick Providing Humanitarian Aid 2007End of the Migrant Trail Tohono O’Odham Nation 2003Memorial March for Jose Antonio Nogales, Sonora 2014Anne Frank in a Migrant Camp 2004Lunchtime for Asylum Seekers, Benedictine Monastery Tucson 2019Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine Along the Migrant Trail 2003All That Remains of a Weary Traveler Arizona migrant trail 2011
