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Sweet Border: Illegal and Bad

Sweet Border, Anapra, NM/Colonia Anapra, Juarez Chihuahua-Feb. 2009 Life goes on. Mexico is a great pueblo. So is El Paso and southern New Mexico. One reads the newspapers and one thinks the world has gone insane. Particularly here, on the border.

None Illegal

Border fence at Anapra, NM/Looking into Juarez-02/21/09 The border fence is a stinkin’ dirty bad joke. Do these kids look like terrorists or narcotraficantes or, even, the dreaded low wage worker that every American company has winked at, invited, used and exploited for decades?

Jumping over El Segundo

Jumping over El Segundo, El Paso-2009

Alameda Street Showboat: Blast From The Past

Alameda Street Showboat, El Paso-1987 Alameda Street is about (what’s this “about,” stuff?) to get stomped. Progress. New Hospital and Medical School down the Street. Progress. ‘ta bien, really. Time to move on. One thing about Urban Renewal and Plans: we have had the best of it and now you can have the rest. The [...]

La Migra Mirando

Border fence/Rude wall. El Paso-2009

Sabastio Salgado Speaks

The great Brazilian photographer Sabastio Salgado talks about his work. He is one of the premier “Socially Concerned,”photographers in the world: