1999 Infinity Award: Publications

Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future, written by Charles Bowden and published by Aperture, focuses on the current relationship between two border towns: El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. Bowden's book is an uncompromising work that combines insightful and informed reporting with powerful revealing images by a group of Mexican newspaper photographers. It addresses NAFTA, immigration, gangs, corruption, drug trafficking, and poverty.