Angelica, Segundo barrio, El Paso — Oct. 18, 2010 EL PASO –Angelica Alvarez. A true believer. A believer in her faith. A believer in a better day. A believer in joy. I noticed her as she worked her way down the street, engaging every person that she encountered, leaving each person she talked with a smile on […]
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 who […]
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 Day)!
El Centro, El Paso — September 2009
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 to see.
