Hope on the border (Illustration), El Paso-Juárez, 2021

Text/Photography by Bruce Berman

This is not a photograph. It is an “illustration.” It’s a “montage,” a form of photography that goes all the way back to the near beginnings of photography. The distinction between “illustration,” and “photograph,” is that the former is an idea and an opinion and the latter exploits photography’s main strength: believability.