Photographer Lara Shipley carefully examines the U.S.-Mexico border and the various towns and their inhabitants in her series titled, “Coming, Going and Staying.”
“Shipley’s stylistic approach is to use a blend of found and manipulated scenarios; some are staged, and others are shot as she finds them. This blending of actual, real-life documentary subjects with manipulated elements becomes interesting when applied to a region generally covered in a more straightforward documentary fashion.”
To learn more about her series: http://slate.me/1746Wjt