border-blog

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: May 23-30, 2008 Wary girl in downtown El Paso Notes from my Journal, September 1986 I am an illegal alien in a strange land. That’s a phrase they use a lot in the newspaper here: Illegal Alien.

May 23rd, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (#2): May 16-23, 2008 Man who jumped the river, waving at his friends in Juarez (in triumph), standing on US side/ El Paso-Juarez, 1990′s        

May 16th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (#1): May 16-23, 2008 Moving the man, Uptown (upper Broadway Street), Chicago, 1969 I have moving on my mind. I don’t do it often. When I do it is a reincarnation for the better or worse. I am about to do it. In so doing, I came up with this image [...]

May 16th, 2008
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Photo of the Week, border photography . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Remnant #37, Less gas/Alameda Street, El Paso, Texas – May 12, 2008 “Gas for less.” Less gas. This is not a glitch, it is the changing of a culture. Usually when a culture changes -sorry Barack- it is the result of a calamity: Depression, war, pandemic, natural disaster. Were it not so, but “change,” is [...]

May 13th, 2008
Categories: American Highway, border photography, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

May 10th, 2008
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Photo of the Week, Photography Tip . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: May 9-May 16, 2008 Juarez harps(?), May 2008 There hasn’t been so much gunfire in Juarez since 1910. Since Jan.1, there have been over 230 drug war-related murders. There was a time in Juarez -bourgeoise and ugly Americano, for sure, but what the hell- that it was just the old fashioned [...]

May 9th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: 1 Comment

  PHOTO OF THE WEEK: May 2-9, 2008 The bridge that divides, El Paso to Juarez, Jan. 2008 The Paso del Norte bridge between Juarez and El Paso. This is a bridge in hell.

May 2nd, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Photo of the Week, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: 2 Comments