Pipe In the valley
Pipe in the landscape, Mesilla Valley, Fall 2008
Border New Mexico landscape
Pipe in the landscape, Mesilla Valley, Fall 2008
Border New Mexico landscape
Border landscape #47, Juarez/El Paso - August 1, 2008
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.
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, […]
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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© Russell Lee Photograph Collection, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Swimming pool at Armijo Park, El Paso, Texas, 1949
El Paso border immigration
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 - 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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Miguel, postman and mensch, El Paso - July 2008
Miguel.
Another border encounter.
He’s a savior for me on this day.
Border Chicanisimo El aso and Juarez
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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