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.
Why […]
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 […]
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.
Juarez El Paso immigration border
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.
Juarez Border El Pso immigration femecide
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 1-Feb. 8, 2008
Swimming away from la migra, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, El Paso-Juarez
Immigration. Swim, drive, crawl. People gravitate to do what they need to do and making them do any of the aforementioned things, puts their lives at risk and only enriches those who benefit from the exploitation of others.
This woman […]
