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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 [...]

Do You Have Shares In Hell?

Street kids on Avenida Technologico, Juarez – 2010 Pictures? More pictures of dead bodies in the streets of Juárez? Hard to want to do. I’m not visiting. I live here. It’s better when you have to get the images for your boss/editor and then high-tail it to the airport. But, I’m not working for a [...]

Announcer

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

Joy in the Gym (Sacred)

Joy#2, Segundo Barrio, Sagrado Corazon gym – El Paso Sagrado Corazon gym. Sunday dance. Kick it. Kick it hombre! Golpelo, vato viejo (no muy)! Joy always seems to be somewhere near this gym. The ‘hood is really tattered now. Anything near the border is tattered or about to be. But ya gotta dance, yeah?

Remnants del ‘Hood

Remnants del ‘hood, El Paso – March 14, 2010 There ain’t much left. Mostly the pickins’. This was the Grand Highway, the Spanish Trail, the beginning of the end of the long journey from East to West or vice-versa, the tip of the arrow into the dart board that was Downtown El Paso. Interstate came [...]

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 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 [...]

Centro El Paso/Christmas

Christmas en El Centro

Christmas weirdness, El Paso, Texas – December 20, 2009

El Centro de El Paso

El Centro,  El Paso – September 2009