Tag: photography
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The Miracle We Refuse to See
//WitnessJane Graupman has spent nearly four decades helping immigrants and refugees rebuild their lives—and watching Minnesota become stronger because they did. Her story reveals the people behind the politics: health-care workers, separated families, newly arrived refugees, and communities connected from St. Paul to Kakuma.
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Seeing the People Behind the Policy: Why I am creating Witness: The Human Impact of Immigration Enforcement
//WitnessI am creating *Witness* to document the human impact of immigration enforcement through portraits, interviews, and reporting. By sharing these stories, I hope readers better understand lives often hidden behind politics and headlines, and that understanding leads to a more humane conversation. If you have a story that should be part of this project, I…
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They Come Because They Have To. They Contribute Because That’s Who They Are.
//WitnessIn this interview, Laura Cooper cuts through the noise around immigration. We talk about why people leave home, what they face when they arrive, how families rebuild, what immigrants contribute, why citizenship means safety, and why Minnesota was ready to stand up when the pressure came. At the center is a simple truth: immigrants are…
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Inside the Crowd
//ProjectsInside the crowd, the protest breaks apart into something more immediate: Voices overlapping, bodies pressed together, moments of tension, humor, and defiance unfolding at once. These images move between the crowd and the stage to show what it felt like to be there.
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Minneapolis did not wake up to a federal “operation” today. It woke up to a killing.
//WitnessI arrived shortly after an ICE agent killed a woman in Minneapolis. What follows is a firsthand account of what I witnessed as federal agents withdrew and the city gathered to bear witness.
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