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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, […]

Mexico’s other border

SEE VIDEO: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/video/player?titleID=1372185572
 
Borders. North and south. Mexico is a yin yang of the first order.
See what’s going on on the southern border and get some insights into what’s going on on the northern one.
Article by the always interesting and powerful Charles Bowden with cut-to-the-bone humane photographs by superb Magnum shooter, Alex Webb.
 
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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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Immigration abuse never ends. Jacob Riis: Concerned Photographer

“Slept In That Cellar Four Years,” 1890-92
“Slept in the cellar (of a Ludlow Street tenement)
where the water was ankle deep on the mud floor”
View more work -and hear an excellent NPR audio clip- by the great Danish-American documentary photojournalist. He was one of the first to use “flash,” (first introduced in Germany in 1887). […]

AIDS balloon at the border

AIDs balloon at the border, El Paso - June 27, 2008
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Ayudanos (todos de nosotros)

Ayudanos/Help us, El Paso - 2008
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Wary girl in downtown El Paso

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: May 23-30, 2008

Wary girl in downtown El Paso
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Man who crossed the river

PHOTO OF THE WEEK (#2): May 16-23, 2008

Man who jumped the river,
waving at his friends in Juarez (in triumph),

standing on US side/ El Paso-Juarez, 1990’s
 
 
 
 

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