U.S.-Mexico Border: Camera gives glimpse of life in border state for New Mexico State University researcher

An introduction to the work of photojournalist Bruce Berman and his Border Blog. We invite you to take a look at the blog and listen to his words. He provides a very up-close and personal look at the realities of the border. In our own way, MexicoBlog and the Americas Program share his mission, "to go out and try to learn as much as (we) can and then give that information to an audience who might need to know what (we)'ve learned."

Las Cruces Sun-News: "Bruce Berman is an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication and a researcher at New Mexico State University. He doesn't own any lab coats, just jeans with big enough pockets to hold his "Plan B" batteries, memory cards and lens filters. The closest thing he has to a laboratory is the iMac in his office. His high-tech instrument: the Nikon camera he always keeps around his neck or on the passenger seat right next to him while out and around the desert Southwest and the U.S./Mexico border region.

"If you are doing good journalism, you are finding information for other people to use," Berman said of his style of research. "My job is to go out and try to learn as much as I can and then give that information to an audience who might need to know what I've learned."" read more