Bruce Berman

Biography

Bruce Berman has been a professional photographer for almost four decades. He has always worked in what some have called “The Concerned Photographer" style of photography. His initial documentary projects were in Chicago where he photographed Appalachian migrants to the big city, Black Panthers during the tumultuous 1960s and the gritty street life of Chicago in its Rust Belt years. His main work for the past 26 years, however, has concentrated on the United States-Mexico border, particularly the narrow stretch of land that encompasses El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Mr. Berman studied photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and also earned a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.