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James Barraza, Segundo barrio, El Paso - June 30, 2008

James Barraza prowls the Segundo barrio with his Bible and attempts to spread “the good word.” Read more…

July 1st, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

“Slept In That Cellar Four Years,” 1890-92

“Slept in the cellar (of a Ludlow Street tenement)

where the water was ankle deep on the mud floor”

View more work -and hear an excellent NPR audio clip- by the great Danish-American documentary photojournalist. He was one of the first to use “flash,” (first introduced in Germany in 1887). Riis cast the mold for what a “Concerned Photographer,” is, and launched a century of relevant, motivating and society-changing “witnessing.”

Editor’s Note:

For more images and audio clip: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91981589

June 30th, 2008
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Immigration, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

AIDs balloon at the border, El Paso - June 27, 2008

June 29th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Grand-daughter, grandmother and mother visiting a diet doctor in Juarez - June 21, 2008

June 27th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Restaurant, Chapparal, New Mexico - June 24, 2008

June 26th, 2008
Categories: American Highway, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Ayudanos/Help us, El Paso - 2008

June 23rd, 2008
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Biplane in Juarez, June 21, 2008

June 22nd, 2008
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Roof Cam #8, El Paso - June 2008

I’m driving around my city. I’m moving my operation a little to the north of where I am now, north of the border, north of the borderline, north of my reality. I’m already feeling separation depression. So I drive around my turf of 30 years. I don’t have to look anymore, I know the bricks, the cracks, the fault lines. I’ve shot them a million times and re-shot them. I stick the camera out the sunroof and let the car become part of the camera. The car is the camera. and I tour my myth. This is between me and it, not meant for others. All of my work is getting there now, it’s between me and it.

June 20th, 2008
Categories: American Highway, Photo of the Week, border photography, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Please check out: An internationally touring multimedia exhibit on Darfur.

Darfur is another border between Europe and sub-Sahara Africa, between Muslim and Christian, between (whatever is left of) sanity and outright brutal lunacy.
Learn more from some of the world’s best photographers. Read more…

June 19th, 2008
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Immigration, Violence on border, border photography . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: June 17-????, 2008

View of el poniente, Juarez, June 2008

World has gone crazy.

Murder and hell in this landscape.

Stop taking your drugs you busted up stinkin’ American pricks! Read more…

June 17th, 2008
Categories: Photo of the Week . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments