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Juarez, Black Cross of Peace, 2010 by Bruce Berman

August 31st, 2010
Categories: Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Is there any Light at the end of Juárez’s tunnel? There are a lot of things in Juárez these days: widows, widowers, killers,  thugs, riddled bodies, drug addicts, every day normal people, kids going to school, people being married, bombs and death across the street (almost) from the old “City Market.” Everything. There is very [...]

August 13th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 [...]

July 14th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Lomas del Poleo, Photo of the Week, Texas, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, el paso juarez border, la migra . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 [...]

June 30th, 2010
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Juarez, Mexico, Texas, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 [...]

May 15th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, drug cartel, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 [...]

May 9th, 2010
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 [...]

April 23rd, 2010
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

A piece written to my photography students at the end of a fine semester at New Mexico State University. Forgive the “first person.” Originally posted on their class website at www.nmsu.documentaryshooters.com: Brucini w/New Blan­ket from a Good Friend, El Paso –Dec. 9, 2009 So it comes to this, the semes­ter ends, we go our own way, we [...]

December 9th, 2009
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Juarez, Photo of the Week, Photography Tip, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border fence, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

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 [...]

October 10th, 2009
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Juarez, Love, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments

Johnland,  El Paso – June 2009 Been thinking about this guy and borders and the idea of the Big Picture versus the small picture ever since I made it (the photo) this summer, on an almost rainy night, in the northeast section of town, out by the military base. John Hughes. Angry. Joyous. Funny. Dangerous. [...]

August 30th, 2009
Categories: Love, Texas, Violence on border, border photography, el paso, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments