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Pipe In the valley

Pipe in the landscape, Mesilla Valley, Fall 2008
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The great divide: Juarez/El Paso

Border landscape #47, Juarez/El Paso - August 1, 2008

Mist and mirrors: facts and fictions

Mist and mirrors d’town, El Paso - 6:38:51pm/July 28, 2008
I am supposed to be packing right now. I have a job in another city. It starts in three weeks. I won’t be leaving. This corner, this light, these people, their shadows, have inveighed my life for an adulthood…a long time.

Border fools and border delights: You gotta look hard

Americo with prayer shawl, yamulke and guitar,
Segundo barrio, El Paso - July 26, 2008
Why do I ever leave my loft?
Went to the gym where a friend of over three years, a retired professor at the local university, someone who has never displayed anything but kindness and goodwill, out of the clear blue, no warning, […]

El Paso remnant: highway US80/”The Spanish Trail”

Remnant #41, Del Norte Courts, El Paso-July 22, 2008
Editor’s Note: For other images from the Remnant series, see the July 13, 2007 and the May 12, 2008 posts. Use the calendar in the right column.
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El Paso and Russell Lee and the border (3 blocks)

© Russell Lee Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Swimming pool at Armijo Park, El Paso, Texas, 1949
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Gilbert and Pooch

 

Gilbert and Pooch, El Paso - July 12, 2008
Assume nothing.
I asked this man, in Espanol, if I could photograph him and his Chihuahua (part of a series I’ve been doing for a long time).
“I don’t speak Spanish,” he countered.
Why would I think he was Spanish-speaking?
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El Paso/Juarez view

 

El Paso/Juarez - July 10, 2008
El Paso: foreground.
Juarez: Background.
Words written in blood on old documents and rattling around in people’s heads who don’t live there.
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Border story: Miguel, postman and mensch

Miguel, postman and mensch, El Paso - July 2008
Miguel.
Another border encounter.
He’s a savior for me on this day.
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Barrio warrior for Jesus: El Paso

James Barraza, Segundo barrio, El Paso - June 30, 2008
 
James Barraza prowls the Segundo barrio with his Bible and attempts to spread “the good word.”
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