Mikal Jakubal

Mikal Jakubal

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Photojournals

The U.S.-Mexico border wall and the border road at dawn. The wall is on the left, with sunlight coming through the bars casting striped shadows on the road. Five people with small backpacks walk beneath the wall, away from the camera.
A single giant lightning bolt after sunset strikes a silhouetted ridge below. The sky is a mix of purple clouds and deep orange sky, the last glow of the setting sun.
Borderlands , Storm Chasing

October Surprise

A heavy gate, 6' x 8' made of 6"x6" square steel tubing, lies on the ground at night after being cut free from the U.S.-Mexico border fence.
Borderlands , Immigration

Gate 18C

A telephoto image from above that appears to be almost an aerial view of a very wide freshly graded dirt road. On the left side, the 30 foot tall rusty iron US – Mexico border wall zigzags across the landscape and up a steep hill. To the right, where fresh construction has been done, erosion control fabric is draped down the hill. The sun is coming from the left, so the wall casts dramatic shadows on the dirt road. In the middle of the shadows is a more brightly lit area where the sun shoots directly through the bars in the wall and illuminates three people with backpacks walking.
Borderlands , Immigration

Twenty Four Hours At The Wall

A group of paraglider pilots waiting to launch on a grassy hill on a sunny day with clouds above. They are all wearing helmets and special paragliding harnesses and holding their bunched up gliders in their hands.
Adventure

Good Fly

A man in a welding helmet, heavy brown welders jacket and gloves stands on a ladder leaning against the US – Mexico border fence. He is welding a 2-foot long piece of heavy angle iron horizontally between several of the vertical steel posts in the fence. Sparks and smoke are flying from the welding rods. To the left is a flatbed pick up with a blue welding generator, spools of welding cable and a work vice on the back.
Borderlands , Immigration

Mending Wall

The U.S.-Mexico border fence, built of rows of 30' tall, 6" x 6" square steel tubing set into concrete 4" apart. The posts are out of focus, but the scenery behind them is sharp. A man wearing dark clothing and a neck gaiter to hide his face leads a group of people through the bushes toward the fence. He is holding a radio.
Borderlands , Immigration

The Portal

The 30' rusty steel U.S.-Mexico border fence towers above a group of over 200 migrants at night. The people are illuminated by the headlights of a Border Patrol pickup truck out of the frame.
Borderlands , Immigration

Christmas at the wall

A blue plastic milk crate, turned upside down, with two dark rocks atop. Inside the crate are white plastic water jugs, obviously torn open and empty. The crate is sitting on stony ground, with desert vegetation in the background. There is also a rumpled white Red Cross blanket lying on the ground in the background.
Borderlands , Immigration

Water drop

The Niland mud geyser or mud spring, looking Northwest. It is a pool of bubbling, brown, muddy water. The surface is about 3' down vertical sides. Two rusty pipes cross it near the surface. In the background is the rerouted highway with a semi-truck on it. Between the pit and the new highway is the old road, already being actively undermined by the pit.
Geology , Natural History

The Meandering Mud Pot

A small sapling that has fallen over after being chewed through by a beaver.
Borderlands , Natural History

Beaver Survey

A line of multi-colored, double-stacked shipping containers winds across oak-studded hills. Alongside is a dirt road and piles of loose dirt left from construction.
Borderlands , Protest

Container Wall

Three gigantic purple lightning bolts drop vertically down onto the city of San Diego at night.
Storm Chasing

Keraunomania

A section of the Tai Po pedestrian tunnel wall covered with political posters and hand-written post-it notes.
Hong Kong Protests , Protest

Lennon Wall Interactive Panorama

Hong Kong Protests , Protest

Lennon Wall Hong Kong

Hong Kong Protests , Protest

December 1st Mong Kok Street Protests

A protester holds a black and white flag with the words "Free Hong Kong. Revolution Now" while a crowd of marchers passes by.
Hong Kong Protests , Protest

“Don’t forget our origins” December 1 march

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