India | The ‘Dream’ of School for Impoverished Girls, by Photojournalist...
BY GRACE ANEIZA ALI On the desolate salt pans of western India, as in much of the developing world, poverty and long-standing social customs bar many girls from attending school. The image is from The...
View ArticleArtist Julie Mehretu on ‘Culture/Context’ with LeRonn Brooks
I consider everything political. I don’t see how you can live socially without participating politically. — Julie Mehretu Artist Julie Mehretu with host of ‘Culture/Context’ Dr. LeRonn Phillip...
View ArticleSierra Leone/Jamaica | A Mythology of Memory — Photo Essay by Berette Macaulay
Aunt Gertrud Kretzchmar (Tante Trude). Beskyden, Czech Republic, 2009. © Berette Macaulay . BY BERETTE MACAULAY | THE IMMIGRANT ISSUE | SPRING, 2014 Though I will be a stranger in my land of origin,...
View ArticleTrinidad/Canada | Our Holy Waters and Mine: The Art of Andil Gosine
By Nalini Mohabir From George Village in the south of Trinidad, Andil Gosine migrated to Canada with his parents as a child, and now resides between the pull of Toronto and New York. Like his life, his...
View ArticleMexico | A View from Both Sides: Stories of Migration by Photographer Encarni...
By Asmara Pelupessy Journeying alongside migrants in Mexico, photographer Encarni Pindado has gained the trust and access to tell integrated, truthful stories about migration. She believes that...
View ArticleIndia | Swati Khurana on Rituals, Resistance, and Assimilation
By Misha McGlown Working in embroidery, mixed-media illustration and collage, installation and even film, Swati Khurana explores gender, ethnicity, rituals and behaviors that are very specific to...
View ArticleUS/Mexico | CatherineMarie Davalos: Dancing Across Borders
By Clarence A. Haynes The act of crossing borders, both literally and figuratively, is something that artist CatherineMarie Davalos deeply understands. As an acclaimed dancer, choreographer and...
View ArticleUS | Jonsar Studios: Framing the Immigrant
By Ben Levison American citizens and photographers Katherine Sarkissian and Robert Johnson (Jonsar Studios) have a visceral understanding of the undocumented immigrant experience. They spent 15 years...
View ArticleWorld |‘Larry and Friends’—A Celebration of Immigration and Diversity
By Rajul Punjabi Carla Torres, who hails from Ecuador, and Nathalie Jaspar, who is of Belgian and Venezuelan heritage, rely on their current city, New York, for inspiration. While much of art,...
View ArticleGuyana/India | Gaiutra Bahadur Charts the ‘Coolie’ Woman’s Odyssey
By Grace Aneiza Ali Gaiutra Bahadur’s "Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture" is pregnant with questions, profound and equally haunting. And fittingly so. The saga of what a quarter of a million...
View ArticleLori Waselchuk: “Grace Before Dying” For An Aging Prison Population
By Berette Macaulay "Grace Before Dying" is a title most apt for Lori Waselchuk’s project that documents the volunteer prisoner-run hospice program in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (LSP) at Angola....
View ArticleMary DeWitt: Portraits of Women Serving Life
Mary DeWitt. “Portrait of Avis Lee.” 2014. Oil and graphite on mylar. BY MISHA McGLOWN | THE IMPRISONED ISSUE | WINTER, 2014/2015 An 18-year-old Avis Lee was asked to be a lookout for her older...
View ArticleRussell Frederick: Once Upon A Time We Were Kings
“George.” Age: 31. Rikers Island Jail, New York, 2001. © Russell Frederick Editor’s Note: Russell Frederick has amassed an incredible portfolio since he began documenting the Bedford-Stuyvesant...
View ArticleRandall Horton: From Prison, to Poet, to Professor
The poet and professor, Randall Horton. © Paula Martali A Reoccurring Nightmare In Maximum Security BY RANDALL HORTON it begins where moonlight ends slipping through the horizontal window, wraps each...
View ArticleDwayne Betts: Coming of Age in Prison
R. Dwayne Betts, author of A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison. Editor’s Note: In 1997, R. Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison for...
View ArticlePaul Rucker: A ‘PROLIFERATION’ Of Imprisoned Lives
By Mohamed Keita Paul Rucker's "PROLIFERATION" is an attempt at deconstructing the abstraction of US prison figures into a meaningful and emotional experience. In his immersive sound and video...
View ArticleMae Ryan: Pregnancy and Motherhood Behind Bars
By Mikael Awake Mae Ryan's series, “Pregnant in Prison,” portrays the heartbreak and hope of several women dealing with pregnancy and early motherhood behind bars. Ryan’s photographs are as sensitive...
View ArticleMorley: A Song for Women in Prison, Shackled in Childbirth
By Grace Aneiza Ali In response to learning about the ongoing practice of shackling women in labor, singer/songwriter Morley penned the song “Unshackled.” In her lyrics, she conjures up an image of a...
View ArticleRayhana Maarouf: When A Father Goes to Prison
By Rayhana Maarouf | GIRLS WRITE NOW My dad came back a year later when I was in the ninth grade. It was hard at first. My dad wasn’t used to a lot of noise, and we had gotten used to him not being...
View ArticleTruthworker Theatre Company: Youth Voices Against the School to Prison Pipeline
By Rajul Punjabi Founded in 2013 by Samara Gaev, the Truthworker Theatre Company brings together young people between the ages of 15 to 22 to create, write, and perform in productions that reflect...
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