Prom Girl, El Paso, Texas –May 2011 Murder schmurder! It’s Prom Night in El Paso. Those buildings in the background are downtown El Paso. The space behind, the mountain, that’s Juarez. That girl there, in the foreground, the one with the whimsy and the joy and the hopes and the fragility, she’s a million miles […]
Three guys waiting for work, El Paso ‚ TX. May 2011 by ©Bruce Berman
Gator skin and diamonds, El Paso — May 2011 ©Bruce Berman El Paso –Six blocks to the border. There are diamonds. Well, they ought to be diamonds. He says they cost $250. I believe him. Sunday drive. Family in the Dodge. Stylin’ on Paisano Street by Bowie (Boooie). If you know El Paso you know […]
Boy contemplates the murder of “Our Daughters” in Juarez, through the fence, from El Paso, 2010 by Bruce Berman ©2011 Copyright secured by Digiprove
View of El Paso from Juarez, April 25, 2011 by Bruce Berman Juarez –You keep hearing that “Juarez is dead.” Juarez is not dead. It’s stripped, diminished, bruised and humbled but is it is not dead. Most small business commercial strips are shuttered or just smashed and abandoned. The streets are amazingly empty, the bustle […]
