Smith-Soto’s street photography – the human condition, one frame at a time

With one quick motion of his finger on the camera shutter release, David Smith-Soto erases the boundaries of time and eternalizes an intimate instant as two lovers stare into each other’s eyes. “It’s a glimpse of intimacy,” said David Flores, photographer and special collections archivist at the University of Texas at El Paso. “This is life one frame at a time.”

The black and white photograph taken in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2000 entitled “Lovers” is one of 26 prints in David Smith-Soto’s street photography exhibit in the Glass Gallery at the University of Texas at El Paso,

Photo Gallery: The Street Photography of David Smith-Soto

Smith-Soto said he was pleased to show some of his 60 years of photography to a large audience, but that the purpose of the show was to raise funds for journalism student internships. “We need to send out more students into the world, so that means we need more funding for that,” said Zita Arocha director of Borderzine, UTEP’s online bilingual magazine. Arocha said it costs approximately $3000 to send one student on an internship.

(Jose Luis Trejo/Borderzine.com)

Spanglish – El lenguaje de la frontera

 

Spanglish – El lenguaje de la frontera

Nota del editor: Ana Cecilia Varela, reportera de Borderzine.com, conversa con linguistas expertos y nativos de la frontera sobre el Spanglish como resultado inevitable del cambio cultural en la frontera.

Dejar el nido – De chihuahuense a paseño

EL PASO — Nunca en la vida me imaginé que estaría estudiando en UTEP. Esta universidad ni siquiera aparecía en mi lista de opciones porque para mi era casi imposible verme como un Minero. Mi hermana Marisa es un año mayor que yo y ella entró a UTEP en el 2008. Me impresionó que eligiera esta Universidad porque toda la vida pensé que ella y yo nos quedaríamos en Chihuahua y estudiaríamos en el Tec de Monterrey, que está localizado también en la Ciudad de Chihuahua. Claro que soñaba estudiar en los Estados Unidos, pero siempre estaban presente los confl ictos de dejar mi casa, mi familia, la sociedad en la cual me crie y mis amigos.

Crazy Mario

Mario was part of our lives since we were small kids and today, 40 years later, I was one of two people at his funeral.