This is a book of photographs of US-Mexico border towns, starting with Columbus, New Mexico and including Palomas, Nogales, Sasabe and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. I titled it "Puppets of Violence" because the drug violence has had such a chilling effect but, in reality, the people I have met have not been deterred from their efforts to make these communities better. That is my message - that these people, whether those who live in these border towns or those who come to help, are among the most perservering and courageous people I've ever met.

Morgan Smith