Arivaca, AZ
31.484667, -111.377333
Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT)
Colter Thomas, May 2023
At the start of this project, the guiding philosophy for creating these images was based on the surreal feeling I experienced when encountering the monolithic form of a surveillance tower in an otherwise untouched natural landscape. However, as the project developed, it became clear that these towers are not surreal at all. Surveillance cameras have now become as much a part of the borderlands landscape as the mountains and rocks they watch over.