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Crossing the Rio without Confusion

Undoc­u­mented Women Cross­ingThe R2, Juraez-El Paso, 1984 Text and pho­to­graph by Bruce Berman The river with two names: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte. Depends where you begin and where you end and where you return to. These women are head­ing north. It was a long time ago. Every­thing has changed and noth­ing has changed and I […]

Dummy Babe (the real deal)

Alien Babe in El Paso — May 2009 Some­times it’s more fun to inter­act with dum­mies than it is people.

Border Magic Eye

Cor­dula at the fence, March 23, 2009 Anapra, NM/Colonia Anapra, Juarez, Chi­huahua Yes­ter­day I worked with an incred­i­ble jour­nal­ist from Der Spiegel (the Ger­man equiv­a­lent of Time). She is Ger­man, from the north of Ger­many. Works out of the DC Bureau. Sharp and smart and witty and ironic and puro jour­nal­ist. We did a story at […]

Juarez Will Not End

Otra Linea in Juarez, March 2009 You start to won­der if it’ll ever end but it will end. La vio­len­cia. The violence.

None Illegal

Bor­der fence at Anapra, NM/Looking into Juarez-02/21/09 The bor­der fence is a stinkin’ dirty bad joke. Do these kids look like ter­ror­ists or nar­co­traf­i­cantes or, even, the dreaded low wage worker that every Amer­i­can com­pany has winked at, invited, used and exploited for decades?