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Leap #7

PHOTO OF THE LEAP: Feb. 29-March 7, 2008 Leap­ing into the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, El Paso-Juarez Leap into the river with two names Leap Day in the Leap Year 2008. Let’s all take a leap. Come on…why not! This boy and his friends use the river with two names as a play­ground, a swim­ming pool, a back yard. […]

Two Girls en la Colonia

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 22-March 1, 2008 Two girls get­ting ready for school in Colo­nia Avi­cola, Juarez-2007 It’s the lit­tle moments that work for me. It’s an exquis­ite priv­i­lege to dis­ap­pear. It doesn’t always hap­pen. It’s really great –for the pho­tog­ra­pher– when it does. Pho­tog­ra­phy out in the open, in other people’s real­i­ties, nobody even noticing.

Jesus With Trophy

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 15–22, 2008 Jesus at the bridge, Feb 11, 2008-El Paso Prou­nouns Work­ing on my series, “Lives Sep­a­rated.” Jesus come over the bridge from Juarez with this giant tro­phy. “It’s the tro­phy we got for play­ing Juarez, we played Juarez foot­ball (soc­cer),” he says not say­ing who “we,” or,“they,” are.

Disappeared Mute Girl

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 6–15, 2008 Dis­ap­peared mute girl returns home, Juarez, 2001 Maria Mon­teros Rodriquez had been look­ing for her daugh­ter Car­men for days. She had dis­ap­peared with­out a trace from their cen­tral Juarez home.

Play: Before The Fence

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 1-Feb. 8, 2008 Before the fence, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, El Paso-Juarez — 1989 Notes from my Jour­nal Immi­gra­tion. Swim, drive, and crawl. Peo­ple do what they need to do and mak­ing them do any of the afore­men­tioned things, put lives at risk. The river is more than a high­way of migra­tion, though. In […]