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Border Film Project is a collaborative art project giving disposable cameras to two groups on different sides of the border: undocumented migrants crossing the desert into the United States, and American Minutemen trying to stop them. To date, project founders Rudy Adler, Victoria Criado and Brett Huneycutt have received 73 cameras — 38 from migrants and 35 from Minutemen — with nearly 2,000 pictures in total. The pictures show the human face of immigration, and they challenge us to question our stereotypes and to see through new and personal lenses.

The exhibition runs from January 28 – March 21, 2008 at Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery, 18 S. Michigan Avenue. An opening reception will be held in the gallery on Thursday, January 31, 2008 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. and is open to the general public. Victoria Criado, one of the project’s creators, will attend the opening to discuss the project and to show a 20 minute film of the project.