Street kids on Avenida Technologico, Juarez – 2010 Pictures? More pictures of dead bodies in the streets of Juárez? Hard to want to do. I’m not visiting. I live here. It’s better when you have to get the images for your boss/editor and then high-tail it to the airport. But, I’m not working for a [...]
Dead Police and Murderer in Juarez by heroic by anonymous El Diario de Juarez photographer Today in Juarez. More of the same. If this were anywhere else we’d be sending aide and 120,000 troops. Instead we send DEA Agents (under the terms of the “Merida Initiative”) and clandestine military “trainers,” to train soldiers and police…to [...]
all photographs ©Ken Van Sickle Every once in awhile, when you’re not looking, and something new comes to you and you go, “There’s More!” This morning, in my meanderings, I came across this quote: “A person often meets their destiny on the road he took to avoid it.*” The quote led me -in that totally [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
El Puente Cordova, El Paso/Juarez, November 30, 2009 Snow! A rarity in this no-mans-land. Hardship. No one is ready for it. Not man nor beast nor domicile. The aftermath will be unnavigable mud on some of the streets in Juarez: there’s always a fire from people using heaters they’re not used to using; tons of [...]
Alameda Street #91, El Paso- November 2009 This street is changing. New Medical School and renewed Medical Center just down the block. Oh yeah they have the Grand Plan. But the south side has its own Plan and the hot paint keeps coming! Yeah man, this street is the Grand Plan dealing with the No [...]
Pretty spot/bad times-Juarez 2009 Juarez / October 2009 Murders continue. Record year. Day of the Dead is coming. Like every day hasn’t been that. The streets have an eerie decay to them. Litter. Boarded up windows. Still a lot of hustle but the nights are empty and in the shadows are things no one wants [...]
Dignified man #7, Juarez ©2009 Bruce Berman Juarez/13 June 2009 So what else is there in Juarez besides murder and catastrophe? Right now, it doesn’t seem like anything. But, then, there are those moments. Tender Mercies. I walk the streets. I walk the beaten down downtown. I bus through the factory landscape with For Lease [...]
D’town El Paso, 104 degrees, July 28, 2009 It’s cookin’ in El Paso. 104! Hard to breath. But people do. You keep moving.
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