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” […]
December 24th, 2011
Categories: border photography, el paso juarez border, Juarez, Mental Illness, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
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 […]
October 24th, 2011
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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 […]
October 21st, 2011
Categories: border photography, Caló, Chicano, el paso juarez border, Humanity, Photo of the Week, Segundo barrio, US/Mexico Border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
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. […]
September 9th, 2011
Categories: border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border, Juarez, Mental Illness, Mexico, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: 1 Comment
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 […]
June 26th, 2011
Categories: el paso juarez border, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Texas, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments