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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 […]

In Outside

Inside Out by JR Editor’s Note: This is an amaz­ing project. In the era when peo­ple worry about the demise and/or future of jour­nal­ism, when aca­d­e­mics ques­tion the effec­tive­ness of jour­nal­ism in a 24/7 news cycle world, there is JR, who is pro­duc­ing and pro­mot­ing another form of pho­to­jour­nal­ism and not only bring­ing his sub­jects into […]

La Barricada a Los Dos Anapra(s)

Protest For Peace at the Anapra, New Mexico/Anapra, Chi­ahuaha bor­der, Jan. 29. by Bruce Berman ©2011

El Paso Dreamin’

Town for sale, El Paso — Feb. 2010 From the movie The Bor­der: Marcy (Valerie Per­rine) : (Show­ing her Bor­der Patrol hus­band brochures about El Paso, try­ing to talk him into mov­ing there, at their break­fast table, in Los Ange­les) Honey some­times you gotta dream. Char­lie Smith (Jack Nichol­son) : (Paus­ing, fur­row­ing his now sig­na­ture brow) […]

SNOW!">I kiss you, SNOW!

El Puente Cor­dova, El Paso/Juarez, Novem­ber 30, 2009 Snow! A rar­ity in this no-mans-land. Hard­ship. No one is ready for it. Not man nor beast nor domi­cile. The after­math will be unnav­i­ga­ble mud on some of the streets in Juarez: there’s always a fire from peo­ple using heaters they’re not used to using;  tons of $14.95 […]