Tijuana Photo of the Day / Tijuana Urban Art
Mural Intervention in Colonia Camino Verde. "Colors give people energy." Camino Verde is a neighborhood in Tijuana that started out in 1985 as a squatter community of a few hundred homes on the far outskirts of the city. Today, Camino Verde hosts a population of 42,000 of mostly immigrant families […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day
We witnessed an anti-Calderón demonstration today as hundreds of police officers and military personnel lined up to block the streets and maintain vigilance to prepare for the arrival and state visit of President Felipe Calderón at CECUT. Streets were blocked from the glorieta of Cuauhtémoc through Paseo de los Héroes up […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day
Walking out of Playas on Saturday to catch a taxi, we were overrun by dozens of bicyclists out for a ride through the city. Everybody's promoting cycling these days in TJ, from the Paseo de Todos which happens on the first Friday of the month, to Tijuaneando en Bici, cyclists […]
Border Wall / Friendship Park / Tijuana Photo of the Day
Today I attended an event at Friendship Park for the first time since I moved to Tijuana. I saw so many of my dear friends over on the San Diego side–and in my excitement, I wanted to greet them with a hug, but the hug and kiss I wanted to give was […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day / Tijuana Urban Art
Crossing back and forth too much in the past two weeks from Tijuana to San Diego, and I haven’t had a chance to shoot many photos or post new ones. But just spent two super fun days in Ensenada, photographing a new mural at the Centro Estatal de las Artes […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day / Tijuana Urban Art
A local teenager wields a long-armed paint roller to help out the artist Once Cero Dos as he worked on his mural on Calle Epiteto in the Camino Verde colonia of Tijuana.
Tijuana Photo of the Day / Tijuana Urban Art
Beatles night at La Chupiteria, and we went crazy until 3 AM singing and dancing on the bar. A jazz musician showed up around 1:30 AM with his soprano saxophone and just started playing along as another patron started hammering out accompaniment on the piano. Damn, La Chupiteria, you know […]
Tijuana Photo of the Day
Wednesday afternoon chess players in Parque Teniente Guerrero, just west of the downtown on Calle Segunda.
Tijuana Photo of the Day
A hint of frustration on hand-painted signs in front of an empty house down the street. An abandoned property in an out of the way corner can easily turn into informal dump for trash & discarded construction materials. Signs say, "Throwing trash here is prohibited. I'll get you and throw […]