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@TexasObserver@texasobserver.social · 16 hours ago

Featured 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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A soldier stands on a pier by the river at the border, with a hazy, surreal look to everything due to the infrared filter, which cases foliage across the shore in bright red while emphasizing browns in the solider's uniform.

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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