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Musico del Centro

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Octo­ber 27-November 2, 2007 Pari­cio Valazquez, musi­cian for 49 years, El Paso, Octo­ber 2007 Pari­cio Valasquez has played his gui­tar in the can­ti­nas of down­town El Paso for more than 49 years. He is fully wired.

Homeless Happy Birthday

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Octo­ber 19–26, 2007 Home­less Happy Birth­day, El Paso, Octo­ber 19, 2007 Regino Olivas-Mendoza, 47, hangs around a car wash in cen­tral El Paso. He wears a sign that says, “Home­less today, Is my birth­day, can you help me?”

Los Veteranos de Martino’s

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Octo­ber 12–19, 2007 Vet­er­a­nos de Juarez, Decem­ber 2006  Ramon Covar­ru­bias Quintana(l) and Fran­cisco Bar­raza® are wait­ers at the old Martino’s Restau­rant on Juarez Avenue in Juarez, Chi­huahua, Mex­ico. The restau­rant is located two blocks from the Paso del Norte Bridge that con­nects down­town Juarez with down­town El Paso. Martino’s — and these waiters– […]

Amada and Love

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Octo­ber 5–12, 2007 Amada, Cen­tral Cafe, Juarez — 1992 Amada, Cen­tral Cafe, Juarez — 2007 Amada has worked the counter at the Cen­tral Cafe in down­town Juarez, since the early 1980’s. The cafe is next door to the cathe­dral and is a major cross­roads for buses –and most of all, peo­ple on foot– heading […]

Thoughts On Time

Women and the Red Bus –Oct. 1975 Octo­ber 5, 2007 A funny thing about pho­tog­ra­phy and time: it can cap­ture mil­lisec­onds and it can cap­ture decades, and all in the same photograph.