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Border Beauties

February 13, 2010, the day before the Day of San Valentin – El Paso, Texas Photographs by Bruce Berman Pipo’s Hair Salon and School held a beauty competition and the best of the best turned out to coif, spray, paint and shape the “models,” in a competition that determined who was the most beautiful and [...]

El Dia de San Valentin

La “MC,” Lidia, San Valentin Beauty Show El Paso – Feb. 13, 2010 El Dia de San Valentin/El Paso, Texas Candy? Flowers? Lingerie? Furgidaboutit! Beauty! Big day on the border. Everywhere now. Billions in tooth decay. Billions in flowers grown in eco-destroying third world corporate gardens. Bah humbug (or whatever malapropism you say on Valentin’s [...]

El Centro de El Paso

El Centro,  El Paso – September 2009

“Rats” in a bad spot (or is it pretty?)

Pretty spot/bad times-Juarez 2009 Juarez / October 2009 Murders continue. Record year. Day of the Dead is coming. Like every day hasn’t been that. The streets have an eerie decay to them. Litter. Boarded up windows. Still a lot of hustle but the nights are empty and in the shadows are things no one wants [...]

I Am Free

Johnland,  El Paso – June 2009 Been thinking about this guy and borders and the idea of the Big Picture versus the small picture ever since I made it (the photo) this summer, on an almost rainy night, in the northeast section of town, out by the military base. John Hughes. Angry. Joyous. Funny. Dangerous. [...]

Love Triangle

Bellingham, Wash. – July 16, 2009

Centro Family Train

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 [...]