Submitted my Camino de los Muertos project to the NYT portfolio review with minutes to spare.

To see more of my ongoing work photographing the record number of migrants dying outside of El Paso, head on over to my website at www.justinmhamel.com/caminomuertos

Four years ago I met the family of Sylvia Garcia praying for her outside of her ICU room. Down the hall, Jose Garcia's daughter was taking care of her intubated father. He passed away from Covid a month later.

I'm weary of an incoming administration who doesn't take public health seriously.

Well it is an app named after the sky after all.

Howdy from West Texas. Here’s a few photos from a chili cook off out in Cornudas, population 20 or so, where the winner won the deed to 10 acres of land.

The first photo here is of a pregnant woman and her daughter resting in the shade of blankets and c-wire as Texas National Guard stand over them watching.

An asylum seeker I spent months with had the baby in the third photo. She named him Darien, like the jungle.

I was reminded that it’s been a year since I made one of my favorite photos on the border (shown first) so I figured I’d share some more favorites I’ve made over the years.

The last is a photo from when BP held migrants in an outdoor detention camp under Trump in 2019. Arguably only for the optics.