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Cruz Negra: The Light In Juarez II

Juarez, Black Cross of Peace, 2010 by Bruce Berman

Letter to my friend: I’m On My Way Martin

Martin, man of dignity and courage, Lomas del Poleo, Summer 2009 Dear Martin, I said I would be back to Lomas and I haven’t been back in a year now. It’s crazy. I drive to work in Las Cruces three times a week and I look to the west and I can see you, I [...]

Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? Cartier-Bresson’s Isn’t (almost)!

Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? by Steve Ettlinger Born in the 1930′s, come of age in the 1950′s and 60′s, and pronounced near dead in the 1970′s and virtually buried by the closing of magazines/rise of the internet–you have to wonder how it is that some aspects of this wonderful world are still around.

Announcer

Salvador Valentino, Ring Announcer El Paso, Texas – May 23, 2010

Sequesterer(alleged) Sequestered

la acusación (perp walk) en Juárez, May 15, 2010 Iasi Emanuel Rodriquez Gamez , aka “El Enano (the dwarf),” 22, is led down a hallway, by a member of the Federal Police at the Ministry of Justice (Procuraduria de Justicia del Estado) in Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. He is accused of being the leader of [...]

“El Paseo” (With Death in the Shadows)

Town plaza, Zaragoza, Chihuahua-05/08/2010 Sunny normal day. In Zaragoza/Juárez? Impossible! I couldn’t work it in -excuses!- but beyond the Tarahamara woman and her brood, in the deep darkness of the trees, protected by yellow police tape and the Policia Federal -who shooed me away- lies a dead woman in her twenties. Cause of death? Bullet [...]

Fire in Juárez

Man of fire/hombre de fuego, Juárez-o5/08/2010

Half Dead City Is Fully Alive

Zaragoza (Juarez), Chihuahua, street kids at scene of a murdered woman, 05/08 ©Bruce Berman 2010 Two border towns. El Paso and Juarez. One city is half dead and the other is in a coma. Guess which is which? As always, a trip to Juarez puts everything in perspective and raises big questions. For openers:  We [...]

At least 6 police and one sicario killed in Juarez

Dead Police and Murderer in Juarez by heroic by anonymous El Diario de Juarez photographer Today in Juarez. More of the same. If this were anywhere else we’d be sending aide and 120,000 troops. Instead we send DEA Agents (under the terms of the “Merida Initiative”) and clandestine military “trainers,” to train soldiers and police…to [...]

Bad Boy In The ‘hood

1939 Chevrolet, Lincoln School Park, El Paso – March 2010 Sunday in Lincoln School Park. Everyone’s there: the vatos, the old low riders, the young low riders, Las Chicas, los ninos, las familias and me. Got to get that building open again! Fuzz cruised through, took a look, cruised out again (ándale). As it oughta [...]