aftershock haiti

Already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere Haiti experienced a cataclysmic earthquake on January 12, 2010. The disaster rocked the nations capital and shook the small country to its core killing more than 230,000 people and displacing several million. These photographs were made in the weeks after the quake in Port au Prince. The International Red Cross estimated that about three million people were affected by the quake.

south side

Chicago’s South Side has experiences major changes in the past five years, including a multi-million dollar rehabilitation of the Lakefront. Unfortunately, as the city is repackaged the poorest residents are being squeezed out of the city and forced to move to new communities and are not reaping the benefits of gentrification and urban transformation.

shadow lives

During the past decade, millions of Latin American migrants have left their homes and risked death on the perilous journey to the United States in search of a chance to live the ‘American Dream.’ Once here, many of these migrants face economic exploitation, live under the increasing specter of criminality and confront a right-wing political movement dedicated to their removal from American society.

tent city

Portraits of undocumented Latin American immigrants inmates in Maricopa County's Tent City Jail in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1993 Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio set up a "Tent City" as an extension of the Maricopa County Jail in an effort to tackle over-crowding without building a new jail. All inmates in Tent City are required to wear pink underwear and old fashioned striped jump suits.