NACO, Ariz. — When COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, professional photographer John Kurc found himself without a job.

But like a magnet, Kurc was drawn to the border and found a new subject: the wall.

“Sometimes, you know, I spend days out here just documenting what’s happening,” Kurc said.

With no agenda but a lot of curiosity, Kurc decided to leave his home in Charleston and go to the border. He was surprised by what he didn’t see.

“I saw some cows and some horses. Where are the drugs coming in? Where are the migrants coming in?”

Kurc explained how he never expected that the region would be so peaceful, but as he looked further, he saw evidence of life.

"There are some water bottles here," he said. "This [is] probably a really big drop-off area because of the road that comes in off highway."

That was Kurc's inspiration to begin documenting every mile of the border and to publish his videos on YouTube. He has already driven the length of the border and is focusing on hot spots: wall construction, environmental destruction and, now, the growing number of breaches.

Kurc has become an expert at spotting the steel bollards that have been cut by smugglers and has videos of some he detected before they could be patched up by maintenance crews.

"All these breaches literally just go down for hundreds and hundreds of miles," he said.

In fact, Spectrum News counted 38 in a 20-mile stretch. The tools and saws used to cut the border wall cost less than $100.

“It’s like whack-a-mole,” Kurc said.

When he spots a new breach, Kurc takes a picture of it and plots it down on a map.

“You just kind of document, so I have a photograph and the GPS coordinates — the latitude and longitude of where these are.”

But it’s not just the cutting of the wall. The 30-foot behemoth is also being foiled by ladders.

“They build these in a matter of minutes,” Kurc said while holding a ladder. “Normally, there is somebody that will help facilitate the people coming over.”

Social media videos show people scaling the wall. One such video shows a man getting to the other side in just 25 seconds. In an instant, he’s gone.

Kurc said he will continue documenting the breaches and the border.

"My original trip was two weeks, and now I’m in my eighth month," he said. "So I don’t really foresee an end in the near future because I think there are so many other stories to tell. My heart is here at this point, and I never, never, never expected that."