Rio Grande / Rio Bravo del Norte
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The river of legend in the American Southwest and Mexico, the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo is a strand of water tracing over 1,800 miles from the peaks of Colorado, through the pueblos and Spanish-founded towns of New Mexico and the frontiers of Mexico and Texas.
Contested for over 400 years this fragile line through the deserts of Texas and northern Mexico continues to be mark the edge of two political worlds, yet crossed over by peoples with historic and cultural roots on both sides.
Here are five photo galleries covering different areas of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte.
Contested for over 400 years this fragile line through the deserts of Texas and northern Mexico continues to be mark the edge of two political worlds, yet crossed over by peoples with historic and cultural roots on both sides.
Here are five photo galleries covering different areas of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte.
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63 imagesPhotos here picture the beginning stages of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo. At the headwaters west of Creede, Colorado, the river is prime trout fishing territory. Soon it is dammed and diverted for irrigation in the San Luis Valley before heading south into New Mexico. This gallery highlights the Rio Grande's origins in Colorado.
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24 imagesPhotos picture the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo as it carves a dramatic canyon near Taos, New Mexico on its way south. Eventually irrigating the rich Mesilla Valley of southern New Mexico, the river makes its way toward Texas and Mexico.
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92 imagesPhotos at El Paso/Cd. Juarez picture the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del North on a critical part of its voyage. Here, by 100 year treaty, the waters are divided between the two cities, largely for irrigation - although in the future - municipal water will be a major demand on the river. Leaving this rich agricultural valley near Ft. Quitman, the river is essentially dry. These 92 photos highlight the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte in the El Paso/Cd. Juarez area.
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34 imagesPhotos and pictures of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo as it forms the border between Texas and Mexico. Rich variation along the way, beginning in the desert west, flowing through the dramatic canyons of the Big Bend, then filling reservoirs at Amastad and Falcon for irrigation of the rich valley region before reaching the Gulf of Mexico at Boca Chica. Here are 34 photos of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte and its major tributary, the Pecos River, along the U.S./Mexico border. For much more of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo del Norte, see Galleries on Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch
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16 imagesThis series began in 2007 as a protest against GW Bush's border fence as it was called at the time. Does this keep immigrants out - our us in? It's a horrific metaphor for conflicted border. I could not conceive the America of immigrants - my own people landed in the midwest in the early 1900's - now rejecting immigrants. These photos showed the absurdity of the wall a decade before Trump. It has now become a national nightmare as we separate immigrant families and become a land of fear rather than a welcoming nation. Photos of the border picture the El Paso/Cd. Juarez boundary in a new set of images uses the triptych form to amplify the story. These 15 triptychs are part of a larger and ongoing work to image the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo in contemporary terms. Selections from this series created in January 2010 have been exhibited at The People's Gallery, City Hall, Austin Texas; The Texas National 2010 Show at Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas; The 24th Annual Member's Show of the Texas Photographic Society at Baylor University, Waco, Texas; and the 28th Annual Member's Show at the Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas. Here are triptychs of the border wall.
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21 imagesPhotos show some of the rich history of Mexico and Texas is shared along the rich lands of the lower Rio Grande Valley. Included are agricultural ares, Boca Chica where the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo meets the Gulf of Mexico and Los Ebanos, the only rope ferry still in operation along the U.S. - Mexican border.