You are cordially invited to meet the Artist at the opening reception of the photographic exhibit “Living on the Border” and a premier viewing of the 3rd edition of the documentary by Karl W. Hoffman, at the Red Rooster Restaurant and exhibit hall, July 12th 2008 from 2pm to 5pm. The premier of the 3rd edition documentary will begin at 3pm sharp and will run for approximately 45 min. Complementary light refreshments will be served and a full bar and dinner menu will also be available.

Left of Arivaca Rd. on Universal Ranch Rd 1 mile to the Red Rooster Restaurant, 520-398-9200. This exhibit will continue to be shown through the summer. Please call for hours.

Karl W. Hoffman 520-820-9630 kwhphoto@gmail.com
Documentary www.livingontheborder.com
Fine art www.karlwhoffman.com
Arivaca info www.arivaca.net

Press Release promotional photos available on request

Karl has been extensively been covering both sides the American/ Mexican border for the past 4 years. As a freelance photographer for many major publications and most recently for the Dutch magazine Nieuwe Revu (similar to our News Week magazine) he has compiled a personal collection that has been on tour. This moving exhibit began as a generous collaboration with the Tubac Center for the Arts and its first solo show last October. This exhibit has now come to it’s origin in Arivaca with current un-shown works recently added.

Karl’s documentary, which has gained international recognition and is used as a teaching aid at several major American universities that have large departments dedicated to international immigration and border studies and the Queens University in Belfast. It is also a permanent inclusion to the New Mexico University Library.

“This project is my gift back to humanity for the life I have experienced as an artist and is a documentation for future generations so they will know what happened here on the border at the turn of this century. When the word unimaginable comes to mind I must ask where we would be without photojournalism and how we could fully understand beyond the government numbers the true horrors of the holocaust”. KWH


Living on the Border is an insight to an area in our country that so few Americans could even imagine exists. Where living day to day requires coexisting along side the anguish and brutality of illegal immigration, were it is commonplace for the presence of armed military units under the sound of patrolling black hawks the stillness of a starry night can be broken at any time by the sounds of unrest

A once peaceful border town, with cattle roaming the main street, a place attractive to artist, free thinkers, and elderly is now being invaded by government occupation, building physical walls, steel barriers, immoveable strong and self-righteous, highly technical surveillance systems, gates and fences, making the illegal trade in people an drug smuggling more desperate and causing them to boldly push back.

The Indypendent, New York
"Karl W. Hoffman has captured the raw moments along the Arizona-Mexico border that challenge the human tendency to draw invisible 
lines through the landscape and people's lives. His work is of international significance, from the Sonoran Desert to New York City." Jessica Lee

Yale University Press, London
"Living on the Border is a fascinating physical, social and psychological state". 
Robert Baldock, Editor & Managing Director


Photographer's Forum Magazine
Award for Excellence in Photojournalism is granted to Karl W. Hoffman for his photograph of the "Beggar Boy" from the documentary "Living on the Border"


US News and World Report 
“your photos are awesome” Stephen Rountree Graphics Director, Published in the June 25th 2007 issue