Otay Mountain straddles the US-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana. Migrants cross the border on its slopes while Border Patrol Agents search for them in the dark. With its range of rare fauna and flora the mountain is an official ‘Wilderness’ area and is also home to a small community of settler families whose early presence is documented in the archive photographs of Hazel Sheckler. Many people are also believed to have seen ghosts on these slopes.

The work was initiated as part of a group project with 15 other Magnum photographers which was shown at the Bronx Documentary Centre in 2020.