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For over 25 years, Borges’ photographic projects focus on endangered cultures and tribal people around the world. His subjects range from Tibetans marginalized by Chinese occupation of their homeland, to drought-stricken people of East Africa. Borges tends to work very close to his subjects, using a small-lens aperture to ensure that every detail of the subject is sharp. “With direct uncompromising gazes, his subjects, old and young, stare back with a wisdom and strength that seems born of suffering,” writes the Washington Post.
Borges has hosted three television documentaries for Discovery and National Geographic as a part of his current project Spirit of Place. This series explores selected indigenous cultures that still maintain a spiritual dialogue with the natural world.
Currently Borges is developing a program called Bridges to Understanding. Bridges is an on-line classroom program connecting children from indigenous and tribal cultures with their contemporaries in North America for the purpose of exploring and preserving cultural diversity.