Eye on Texas
Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta
The Voices From Both Sides festival commemorates the 2002 closure of the border crossing between Lajitas and its Mexican sister city, Paso Lajitas.
Jennifer Boomer In May, I traveled to Lajitas to document the sixth annual Voices From Both Sides festival (also called Fiesta Protesta). The daylong event comm...Read More
Eye on Texas: Remembering Draylen Mason
Street artist Mike Johnston created this mural on a utility box in East Austin, where the teenage bombing victim was a third-generation resident.
Draylen Mason, 17, was one of two people killed by a package bomb during a string of attacks across Austin in March. The principal bassist in the Austin Youth O...Read More
Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin
I started a community photo project called ATXSquared to document gentrification in East Austin. In this shot, R.L. waits for his ride to weekly dialysis in fro...Read More
Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas
Ella, 15, lives in Austin. I photographed her as part of a larger project documenting transgender youth in Texas, whose rights were endangered during the 2017 l...Read More
Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey
Tamir Kalifa I spent many days on assignment documenting the scenes of devastation and loss in Hurricane Harvey’s wake. The 130 mph winds had passed by the ...Read More
Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy
Ahern creates fantastical mammals such as a nine-tailed red fox and a "black stag" built from parts of deer, elk and sheep....Read More
Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend
I traveled to Big Bend Ranch State Park in October for the second-annual Trans-Pecos Ultra. This rugged ultramarathon spans 170 miles and 15,000 feet of elevati...Read More
Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival
Many attendees recognized Vaughan Neville as he walked around the festival with his headdress and custom-made ax. He said shooting "spreads some freedom."...Read More
Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim
In July's Eye on Texas, Austin photographer Jenny Sathngam gives us a "peek at the faces of people at my favorite (sometimes secret) Texas swimming haunts."...Read More
Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio
Writes photojournalist Scott Ball, who shot a confetti-filled moment at a San Antonio church: "Nothing pulls me in quite the way religious rituals do."...Read More