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Stuck in Juarez: Time warp (siempre es lo mismo)

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: April 25-May2, 2008 Stuck in Juarez, colo­nia Avicola-1989 The Silva fam­ily came to Juarez with the inten­tion of cross­ing the bor­der, into the U.S. and then trav­el­ing to the Mid­west, where a fam­ily mem­ber had pre­ceded them. They intended to work in agri­cul­ture in the wheat fields of Kansas. A dream. […]

Headphones

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: April 18–25, 2008 Head­phones, segundo bar­rio / El Paso — Jan. 31, 2008       Head­phones Ninth Street and Ore­gon. The first street north of the bor­der in El Paso, Texas. Jan. 31, 2008.

El Patron de Las calles: Robert Frank

from The Amer­i­cans Robert Frank b. 1924 “I am always look­ing out­side, try­ing to look inside.” This is da man! King of the road. He saw what every­one saw but he saw it through a 35mm cam­era and with a crit­i­cal eye. To look at it now –the Global Vil­lage which used to be just […]

Polaroid no mas. Fotografos estan proxima!

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: April 11–18, 2008 Polaroid no mas/Polaroid no more, Juarez — 2008 Polaroid Cor­po­ra­tion announced in early Feb­ru­ary that they no longer will make Polaroid instant cam­eras or film. This announce­ment, world wide was greeted, mostly, by a col­lec­tive shrug of the shoul­ders and a “ho-hum.” For Juarez street pho­tog­ra­phers the news was immediately […]

Woman at protest

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: April 4–11, 2008 Dis­tressed woman at protest at Lomas del Poleo, Juarez-2007 Juarez is in flames right now. Drug war is rag­ing. I’m call­ing it a drug war. It’s a lot of things war. Always is.