“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). […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 15-22, 2008
Jesus at the bridge, Feb 11, 2008-El Paso
Prounouns
Working on my series, “Lives Separated.”
Jesus come over the bridge from Juarez with this giant trophy.
“It’s the trophy we got for playing Juarez, we played Juarez football (soccer),” he says not saying who “we,” or,”they,” are.
Juarez El Paso immigration border
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Feb. 1-Feb. 8, 2008
Swimming away from la migra, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo, El Paso-Juarez
Immigration. Swim, drive, crawl. People gravitate to do what they need to do and making them do any of the aforementioned things, puts their lives at risk and only enriches those who benefit from the exploitation of others.
This woman […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Dec. 14-21, 2007
Juan y David, Segundo barrio, El Paso, Texas / summer 2006
Spring and summer of 2006.
“Revolution,” in the streets. Faux Revolution? Revolt. Spurt of protest? Quien sabe?
Remember? The immigration demonstrations and walk outs?
Border Chicanisimo
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: November 3-9, 2007
All Soul’s Day Mass at the border,
Sunland Park, NM/Anapra, Chihuahua
November 2, 2007
All Soul’s Day, Border Mass, NM/Chihuahua border
Nuns on both sides of border fence
Sunland Park, New Mexico/Anapra, Mexico
Today the Bishops of El Paso, Las Cruces, NM and Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico met at the border fence at Sunland […]
PHOTO OF THE WEEK: July 6-13, 2007
Snatched Mexican day laborer sits in the back of a Border Patrol van, El Paso 1999
Most “illegal immigrants,†incarcerated in El Paso are laborers who’s immigration activity […]
Drug cartels want migrants’ routes
Fight to control corridors on Arizona border turns violent
ALTAR, Mexico ˆ This village on the edge of the Sonoran Desert has been a supermarket for smugglers and the smuggled for nearly a decade. Migrants choose from an array of packages offered by coyotes and pick up day packs and anti-dehydration […]
Legislators restarted talks of immigration reform Wednesday with the reintroduction of a bill for a guest-worker program, leading some border farmers to rejoice and some workers’ advocates to worry about potential abuse.
The bill,
1928-1970
Ruben Salazar .
De El Paso
De Juarez.
De El Chuco
De Aztlan
Whacked
U.S. Border Patrol in S. California developing deadly but ineffective Operation Gatekeeper/Interview with Roberto Martinez - In Motion Magazine
Roberto Martinez is the former director of the U.S./Mexico Border Program. A lifelong Chicano activist, he has spent 30 years monitoring human rights in the San Diego/Tijuana area. In 1992, he was honored as an Intermational Human […]
