Border-Blog

• Letter to my friend: I’m On My Way Martin
  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 […]
• Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? Cartier-Bresson’s Isn’t (almost)!
  Is Photojournalism Dead Yet? by Steve Ettlinger Born in the 1930′s, come of age in the 1950′s and 60′s, and pronounced near dead in the 1970′s and virtually buried by the closing of magazines/rise of the internet–you have to wonder how it is that some aspects of this wonderful world are still around. Last week […]
• Do You Have Shares In Hell?
  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 […]
• Announcer
  Salvador Valentino, Ring Announcer El Paso, Texas – May 23, 2010 Share and Enjoy: […]
• Sequesterer(alleged) Sequestered
  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 […]
• Era(s) Coming and Going
  Town plaza, Zaragoza, Chihuahua-05/08/2010 Share and Enjoy: […]
• Fire in Juárez
  Man of fire/hombre de fuego, Juárez-o5/08/2010 Share and Enjoy: […]
• Half Dead City Is Fully Alive
  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 […]
• (Not) The Americans
  Juarez, April 23, 2010 Went looking for trouble. People waved at me. OK. Share and Enjoy: […]
• At least 6 police and one sicario killed in Juarez
  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 […]