Scott Dalton

Biography

Scott Dalton has spent years working throughout Latin America, including a decade in Colombia, where he photographed the civil conflict and drug war. His award-​winning documentary, La Sierra (2005), has been broadcast on PBS, BBC, and HBO Latino, and his photography has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, and the New Yorker.

See Work

REPORTING / Summer 2013

First the Fence, Then the System

By Lauren Markham ,  Photography by Scott Dalton

In early June, President Obama declared the wave of unaccompanied minors crossing illegally into the US—a number expected to reach 90,000 this year—an “urgent humanitarian situation.” While FEMA now coordinates their basic care, the federal...

The border fence, Rio Grande Valley, Texas.