Estamos Buscando A | We’re Looking For (artist’s book) by Paul Turounet navigates a personal exploration into the migrant experience along the U.S.–Mexico border region. The book integrates intimate portraiture, landscape photographs, illustrations, maps, advisories and personal narratives. It was designed to reference pulp novels as well as the migrant safety guides that are given to migrants by Grupos Beta and the Instituto Nacional de Migración of the Mexican government, which work for the protection and defense of human rights of migrants on Mexico’s northern and southern borders through support actions such as search and rescue, humanitarian assistance, legal advice and guidance.

Initially conceived as a site-specific installation, Estamos Buscando A has other iterations. The work has been adapted to exist as an artist’s book and an immersive gallery installation, which exhibited most notably at MOCA Tucson. The book was named to the 2016 Paris Photo | Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award shortlist, and is last in a trio of books the Artist has made on the psychology of place of the US|MX border.