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@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social · 6 days ago

Our top story: By converting a digital camera to reveal infrared light, photographer Jordan Vonderhaar turns #surveillance tech back on itself, with bright foliage highlighting the intensity of #Texas' border militarization. https://www.texasobserver.org/the-river-and-the-fever-dream-photo-essay/

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Seen in infrared light, foliage glows bright red while a cluster of troops beyond the border's barbed-wire wall are highlighted in brown. A tall border barrier stretches across the horizon behind them.

The Texas Observer

The River and the Fever Dream

A converted digital camera can use infrared light to reveal Texas border militarization—in the same way the armed forces once scanned for enemies from the sky.

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