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Remnants del ‘Hood

Remnants del ‘hood, El Paso – March 14, 2010
There ain’t much left.
Mostly the pickins’.
This was the Grand Highway, the Spanish Trail, the beginning of the end of the long journey from East to West or vice versa, the arrow into the dart board that was Downtown El Paso.
Intertstate came and went around, population moved to [...]

Border Beauties

February 13, 2010, the day before the Day of San Valentin – El Paso, Texas
Photographs by Bruce Berman
Pipo’s Hair Salon and School held a beauty competition and the best of the best turned out to coif, spray, paint and shape the “models,” in a competition that determined who was the most beautiful and who was [...]

El Dia de San Valentin

La “MC,” Lidia, San Valentin Beauty Show
El Paso – Feb. 13, 2010
El Dia de San Valentin/El Paso, Texas
Candy? Flowers? Lingerie?
Furgidaboutit!
Beauty!
Big day on the border. Everywhere now. Billions in tooth decay. Billions in flowers grown in eco-destroying third world corporate gardens.
Bah humbug (or whatever malapropism you say on Valentin’s Day)!

Father, Son, Babe

Father, Son, Babe – El Paso, August 2009

Centro El Paso/Christmas

Christmas en El Centro

Christmas weirdness, El Paso, Texas – December 20, 2009

My Window and Mi Compañeros a Sur: Season’s Greetings!

Guadalupe #41, El Paso – Dec. 18, 2009
This third floor window looks out onto the Cordova Bridge to Juarez, three blocks to the south. It’s the Season. Guadalupe, I will light you every night -and a string of Christmas lights too- for the rest of the holiday. If anyone in Juarez sees this, please wave [...]

New Mexico Juke

Las Cruces, NM/Dec. 14, 2009
Juke boxes.
They’re  a “warm fuzzy,” no matter how you cut it.
No?
I just wanna dance. It’s the holidays.
Time to dance. And stare at the wall (and the Web) and have luxurious long lunches (and personally enriching) with good friends, now, in the rush of my life, long overlooked.
I’m in New Mexico and [...]

A Warm Farewell

A piece written to my photography students at the end of a fine semester at New Mexico State University. Forgive the “first person.” Originally posted on their class website at www.nmsu.documentaryshooters.com:

Brucini w/New Blan­ket from a Good Friend, El Paso –Dec. 9, 2009
So it comes to this, the semes­ter ends, we go our own way, we know more [...]

El Centro de El Paso

El Centro,  El Paso – September 2009