Between the Lines | Bruce Berman | TEDxElPaso

Описание: His photos document the stories and are an ode to the people of borderland. He also provides an insightful description of what it is like to live at the intersection of both the Mexican and American cultures. Bruce Berman has been a professional photographer for almost five decades and has always worked in the documentary style, what some call The Concerned Photographer style of photography. Additionally, he has a total of 19 years experience teaching in higher education.
His initial documentary projects were in Chicago photographing Appalachian migrants in Uptown, Black Panthers during the tumultuous late 1960’s and the gritty street life of Chicago in its Rust Belt years. During these tumultuous years he was Midwest photographer for the Christian Science Monitor, and freelanced for the AP, UPI, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and others.
His main work for the past thirty five years has concentrated on the United States/Mexico border, particularly the narrow stretch of land that encompasses El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. Bruce Berman’s work can be seen in The New York Times, Time, and other national and international publications and on his own online magazine, The Border Blog (www.border-blog.com).
Since 2006 Berman has been a Professor of photography at New Mexico State University, and teaches Introduction to Photography, Documentary Photography, and Photojournalism. Previously he was a professor at UTEP. His undergraduate and graduate degrees were earned at the University of Oklahoma H.H. Herbert School of Journalism and he studied with Ernst Hass of Magnum, Sam Abell of National Geographic and Roy Morsch of the New York Daily News.
Berman’s work at NMSU has concentrated on developing strong visual communication skills for students so they can tell compelling stories. He often tells his students “I want you to use photography as an instrument of education, not self expression, so that you will have a chance to matter.”
He is an author of the book, Walking Juárez (Border Blog Press) and is a co-author with poets Lawrence Welsh and Ray Gonzalez of the soon to be released book Cutting The Wire (UNM Press). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx