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Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of Juarez

Man#26, The Other Truth series, Juarez, May 2011 Christ­mas Eve/El Paso A Per­sonal Nar­ra­tive Lost and aban­doned. Christ­mas Eve reminds me of that, right now, as I look out my south-facing win­dow to Juarez (three blocks away) across the val­ley of Juarez, to the foothills of the Sierra Madre, where Crea­mac sits, CREAMAC, the “men­tal Institution” […]

Crossing the Rio without Confusion

Undoc­u­mented Women Cross­ingThe R2, Juraez-El Paso, 1984 Text and pho­to­graph by Bruce Berman The river with two names: Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte. Depends where you begin and where you end and where you return to. These women are head­ing north. It was a long time ago. Every­thing has changed and noth­ing has changed and I […]

Man In The Segundo

Man in the Segundo, El Paso — Sept. 2011   Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Man from Anthony, New Mex­ico, describ­ing his younger days in the Segundo bar­rio. The Segundo bar­rio is El Paso’s most his­toric neigh­bor­hood, hug­ging the bor­der with Juarez, Mex­ico and archi­tec­turally intact from the 1880’s “rail­road boom,” that brought fired brick […]

House of the Abandoned

Maria Full Of Grace, from The Other Truth (T.O.T.) series, Juárez, May 2011 Photo and Text by Bruce Berman Juárez —   Maria. Full of grace. And other emo­tions. A per­ma­nent res­i­dent of CREAMAC, in the hills of Juárez, way up there, near the Guadalupe, the last place on one of the last streets, near the top. […]

Prom Night: The Boogie Man Is A Long Way Away

  Prom Girl, El Paso, Texas –May 2011   Mur­der schmur­der! It’s Prom Night in El Paso. Those build­ings in the back­ground are down­town El Paso. The space behind, the moun­tain, that’s Juarez. That girl there, in the fore­ground, the one with the whimsy and the joy and the hopes and the fragility, she’s a mil­lion miles […]