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. […]
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
