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Borders. North and south. Mexico is a yin yang of the first order.
See what’s going on on the southern border and get some insights into what’s going on on the northern one.
Article by the always interesting and powerful Charles Bowden with cut-to-the-bone humane photographs by superb Magnum shooter, Alex Webb.
border Mexico Guatamala
July 16th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
Juarez Police Protest Arbitrary Arrests
Protesting policeman, Juarez -March 2008
photograph by Julian Cardona
Photo and story by Julian Cardona
March 31, 2008
About 50 Juárez police officers protested what they consider the arbitrary arrests of fellow officers by the recently arrived Mexican army in ciudad Juarez. They were protesting the alleged framing of numerous officers on charges of drug […]
July 11th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
“Slept In That Cellar Four Years,” 1890-92
“Slept in the cellar (of a Ludlow Street tenement)
where the water was ankle deep on the mud floor”
View more work -and hear an excellent NPR audio clip- by the great Danish-American documentary photojournalist. He was one of the first to use “flash,” (first introduced in Germany in 1887). […]
June 30th, 2008
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Immigration, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
Ayudanos/Help us, El Paso - 2008
border violence Juarez El Paso
June 23rd, 2008
Categories: Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, US/Mexico Border, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
Please check out: An internationally touring multimedia exhibit on Darfur.
Darfur is another border between Europe and sub-Sahara Africa, between Muslim and Christian, between (whatever is left of) sanity and outright brutal lunacy.
Learn more from some of the world’s best photographers.
June 19th, 2008
Categories: Discussion of Documentary Photography, Immigration, Violence on border, border photography . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
PHOTO OF THE WEEK (#2): May 16-23, 2008
Man who jumped the river,
waving at his friends in Juarez (in triumph),
standing on US side/ El Paso-Juarez, 1990’s
illegal migration border Juarez Mexxico El Paso
May 16th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: May 9-May 16, 2008
Juarez harps(?), May 2008
There hasn’t been so much gunfire in Juarez since 1910. Since Jan.1, there have been over 230 drug war-related murders.
There was a time in Juarez -bourgeoise and ugly Americano, for sure, but what the hell- that it was just the old fashioned sins: getting drunk, […]
May 9th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: 1 Comment
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: April 25-May2, 2008
Stuck in Juarez, colonia Avicola-1989
The Silva family came to Juarez with the intention of crossing the border, into the U.S. and then traveling to the Midwest, where a family member had preceded them. They intended to work in agriculture in the wheat fields of Kansas. A dream. The American […]
April 25th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, chihuahua, el paso, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: April 4-11, 2008
Distressed woman at protest at Lomas del Poleo, Juarez-2007
Juarez is in flames right now.
Drug war is raging. I’m calling it a drug war. It’s a lot of things war. Always is.
border juarez Mexico
April 4th, 2008
Categories: Immigration, Juarez, Mexico, Photo of the Week, Violence on border, border photography, el paso juarez border, illegal immigration . Author: bruce101 . Comments: No Comments