Mario: "I used to be an artist, in Spain," by Bruce Berman 2014
“I used to be an artist in Spain,” by Bruce Berman 2014
Welcome to the new improved doc shooters site. This is where you will post your Weekly Photos and each of your documentary projects.
The site is graphically improved and should run faster, smarter and better.
For those of the class who have worked on this site before, the Dashboard is fairly much the same. For new students, we will be having a tutorial on how to post and use this site.
Hope you will enjoy working on the site
Thank you webmaster Manny Rivera for upgrading and improving our site. It looks great!
Professor Bruce Berman has been a photographer for many decades and a teacher for a few. He started out in Chicago as a street photographer shooting riots for UPI, AP, The Chicago Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor. Mostly interested in photographing people his photography eventually morphed into the idea of doing documentary photography although at the time he didn’t know there was a name for it.
On an assignment, he got lost in the desert and ended up in El Paso and has lived three blocks from Mexico for over forty years.
He has covered the border, northern Mexico, West Texas and the southern United States ever since.
Now concentrating exclusively on documentary photography -and teaching- he has found himself back at his roots.
Teaching at a university has provided Berman with opportunities to do research and work with a new generation of photographers. He calls them “the next great generation of shooters.”
