jmhamel
justinhamel.bsky.social
jmhamel
@justinhamel.bsky.social
Photojournalist covering energy and immigration.
Contributor to NYT, WSJ, Bloomberg + more.
www.justinmhamel.com
🏠 El Paso, Texas
What does this mean? I thought Bluesky doesn’t verify anyone.
November 19, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Thalia Gochez’s photos are so damn good. Wish I could be half the portrait photographer she is.
November 19, 2024 at 6:03 AM
Well it is an app named after the sky after all.
November 19, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Honestly that’s a wild documentary waiting to happen.
November 19, 2024 at 4:40 AM
That first photo of the feels hauntingly timeless.
November 18, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Howdy from West Texas. Here’s a few photos from a chili cook off out in Cornudas, population 20 or so, where the winner won the deed to 10 acres of land.
November 18, 2024 at 10:09 PM
She’s one of the best there is. Was lucky enough to meet her and see the gulf coast through her eyes, if only for a day.
November 18, 2024 at 10:07 PM
One of the hardest, and most frustrating, aspects of border news coverage is that so much of it is talked about in an abstract policy sense when every decision or tweet from a person in office impacts people directly. Hope we can humanize all of the policies through the next Trump administration.
November 18, 2024 at 10:06 PM
The first photo here is of a pregnant woman and her daughter resting in the shade of blankets and c-wire as Texas National Guard stand over them watching.

An asylum seeker I spent months with had the baby in the third photo. She named him Darien, like the jungle.
November 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Appreciate the shoutout. Not sure what I’m doing here just yet but I’ll get to posting photos soon enough.
November 17, 2024 at 4:27 AM
A curious line indeed.
November 17, 2024 at 12:53 AM