Border Blog

Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of Juarez

bruce101 — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:02:54 +0000

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 [...]

Crossing the Rio without Confusion

mrivera915 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:09:24 +0000

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 [...]

Man In The Segundo

bruce101 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:34:52 +0000

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 [...]

Robot Geeks Attack El Paso

bruce101 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:38:17 +0000

V.I.P. at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas all photographs by Bruce Berman Robots at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas Robot attacks little girl at Robo-Geek Fest, El Paso, Texas Story by Bruce Berman El Paso —- Four-wheeled robots wielding paintball guns took over the Western Technical College Northeast campus on October 15, when students [...]

Night Out With The Man Who Loves Dogs

bruce101 — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:50:14 +0000

The man who loves dogs (who doesn’t?), Las Cruces, New Mexico, September 2011 FOR SLIDESHOW: Photos and Text by Bruce Berman Las Cruces NM — Gary Bailey. Mensch (in Yiddish it means “a person of integrity and honor”). He is the man who loves dogs. One of them. He rescued all five of these. The [...]

House of the Abandoned

bruce101 — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:05:55 +0000

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 [...]

An Iconic Survey of the Border Funklands:1975–2011

bruce101 — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:09:46 +0000

Teepee on the Carlsbad Highway, from the Funklands Project ©Bruce Berman FOR SLIDESHOW:

The Heart of El Paso/Alligators And Kids With Heart

bruce101 — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:18:45 +0000

Luis Jimenez’ Largartos (Alligators) in San Jacinto Plaza, El Paso, Texas, July 2011 by Bruce Berman El Paso – by Bruce Berman This is what kids do on their Quincineras in El Paso. They go to the heart of El Paso. They go to the downtown plaza, the “San Jacinto Plaza.” This is [...]

Prom Night: The Boogie Man Is A Long Way Away

bruce101 — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:08:03 +0000

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 [...]

Waiting For Work

bruce101 — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:09:02 +0000

Domes The Multimedia Man

bruce101 — Tue, 31 May 2011 04:45:23 +0000

Gator Skin And Diamonds And Color

bruce101 — Sun, 15 May 2011 14:56:21 +0000

Gator skin and diamonds, El Paso — May 2011 ©Bruce Berman El Paso –Six blocks to the border. There are diamonds. Well, they ought to be diamonds. He says they cost $250. I believe him. Sunday drive. Family in the Dodge. Stylin’ on Paisano Street by Bowie (Boooie). If you know El Paso you [...]