My Photo scholarship 2010 entry
USA | Sunday, October 17, 2010 | 5 photos
I am a college student from one of the border cities that divide the United States and Mexico, the El Paso-Juarez Border. Juarez is the most dangerous border city in the world; hundreds of people are murdered every week for the fight of cartel power. My photographs take place at the University of Texas at El Paso. The campus is enlightening, embedded upon the mountains of the city it becomes a mirage of one of the forbidden kingdoms, Bhutan.
The first and second of my photographs takes place on a building on the highest mountain on campus and it over sees the entire university. As I see its view I simply smile, I see so much color when usually El Paso is a brown stale city. Then I see men working, taking care of our kingdom, they work in peace. Then I look across from them and I see more colors; flags. The flags represent the elements of the earth, also used in the Bhutanese culture as a form of written prayers that will make their way to the heavens as the winds blow. As I walk farther beyond I get chills, I reach the edge of the university, upon a hill I stand and stare, at the view the university has of the city. What I see is the city rescue mission, and beyond it a city in Mexico that needs to be rescued, Juarez. It is hard to stare for so long, because you begin to feel its pain, where there is no color, no working in peace, there are only prayers, prayers that I hope reach the heavens.
I feel as if I am a child, when walk through the earth I just smile in awe of almost everything, even in the most horrid places I see beauty. Sometimes my camera does not want to work with me, so I take a mental picture. But I wish I could share the beauty I see with others, because when you share the beauty of the world, you become it.
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