Border-Blog

• Lost And Looking For Redemption In The Mountains of Juarez
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  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
  Teepee on the Carlsbad Highway, from the Funklands Project ©Bruce Berman FOR SLIDESHOW: […]
• The Heart of El Paso/Alligators And Kids With Heart
  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
    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
  Three guys waiting for work, El Paso , TX. May 2011 by ©Bruce Berman […]