Border Blog

Hand In The Hood, El Paso — 2009

July 6th, 2009
Categories: border photography, el paso juarez border, Immigration, Segundo barrio, Texas, US/Mexico Border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Fam­ily in Segundo bar­rio, El Paso — 2009 Thanks­giv­ing Day. Sum­mer of 2009. I see it every day. That other day, the one in Novem­ber, I guess it’s in there some­where. Eat­ing and stop­ping the world and trav­el­ing and the whole schmeer. That’s thank­ful­ness, right. What is the word for grinch in Thanksgiving-ese? I see thanks every day in […]

June 16th, 2009
Categories: border photography, Discussion of Documentary Photography, el paso juarez border, Immigration, Love, Segundo barrio, Texas, US/Mexico Border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Musi­cos, El Paso — April 2009 Wary eyes. Everyone’s wary, in El Paso/Juarez, these days. The bor­der is at war, with itself, with it’s two yin/yang sides, with the Inte­ri­ors of each of the two sides. Everyone’s won­der­ing where it’ll end, where they will fall on the have and have not scale, what’ll be left of this […]

April 25th, 2009
Categories: American Highway, border fence, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border, Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, New Mexico, Photo of the Week, Texas, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: 3 Comments

“Maleno,” Juarez — March 2009 Juarez, March 13, 2009/ Estado Ben­ito Juarez, Juarez, Chihuahua/Mexico The Juarez Indios are a pro­fes­sional fut­bol team(soccer). They are in the mid­dle of the Car­tel Drug War. Much of the city of Juarez has ral­lied around the Indios, find­ing some “nor­malacy,” in the mid­dle of the trou­bled Juarez vio­len­cia. Julio Daniel […]

April 3rd, 2009
Categories: border photography, chihuahua, drug cartel, el paso juarez border, Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 […]

March 25th, 2009
Categories: border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration, Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: 2 Comments