"A Line in the Sand" by Photographer Michael Valiquette

"A series integrating border politics, accessibility, secrecy, and the complexities of human nature by New York-based photographer Michael Valiquette. Valiquette is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, book maker, and graphic designer. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Siena College and has worked as a Graphic Designer and Photographer at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. For the last two years, Valiquette has been making images in "places that divide"-barriers (real and imagined) across Mexico, the United States, and Canada."

"Below Mount Cristo Rey, where one can stand in the United States and Mexico simultaneously, a family of five runs as fast as they can toward an opening underneath the train tracks. This is one of the moments I observed while working on A Line in the Sand.... I need to continue exploring the existing tensions in these border areas."

A New York–based photographer produced a series integrating border politics, accessibility, secrecy, and human complexity across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. The practitioner works across disciplines including photography, book making, and graphic design, and brings institutional design and photography experience to the project. Images were made over two years in places that divide—real and imagined barriers—documenting clandestine movements, moments of transit, and precarious encounters. Specific scenes capture families and individuals navigating openings beneath train tracks and standing between nations, emphasizing tensions and the urgency of visually recording divided geopolitical spaces.

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