Miami-Dade County is putting the squeeze on trailer park residents, forcing costly fixes to pre-existing modifications with the threat of eviction. Of the mostly Cuban and Central American immigrants living in the parks, low incomes and ignorance of coding procedure have put residents at risk of losing their original investment and their homes. “It is an issue of poverty, but also an issue of people not understanding that they can stand up to power without being shot.” -Kit Rafferty, executive director of South Florida Jobs With Justice
More images and text at the Marguerite Casey Foundation, and more stories from Miami to follow in coming days.
Chris Skiles of Lucky 11 Studios, also Associate Art Director at Seattle Met, posted the nicest of profiles of me on his blog today. Really appreciate the attention, and I’ve enjoyed looking through his musings on design and inspiration.
A 3-person show featuring my vigilante pictures makes another stop, as described on the Colorado Photographic Arts Center website: “BorderLines, curated by Erin McCarley, opens for a second viewing at the University of Denver Museum of Anthropology, January 19 – March 15, 2012. There will be a reception on the 19th, 5-7 pm, with an Artist’s Introduction by Dana Romanoff at 6 pm. BorderLines was the first exhibition presented by the New CPAC in Lakewood (September 22 – October 29, 2011). The show brings together three photo-essays that examine life on the US/Mexico border and approaches the controversial issue of immigration through the perspective of the emigrant; in doing so it seeks answers to questions usually ignored by the US media: What are the social, political and economic forces that cause people to leave their homes, their roots, and their families behind? And what dangers do they face, on both sides of the border, in their epic journey to a land of greater opportunity?”
I’m just back from Miami where I spent a week digging into some heavy stuff for the Marguerite Casey Foundation. I teamed up with freelance writer Susannah Nesmith, a Livingston Finalist and former AP and Miami Herald staffer. We hit it hard and found some pretty compelling stories on a variety of poverty-related topics. Over the next few weeks the stories and photo essays will appear at Equal Voice News (and here too, of course).
Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar- Honorable Mention- News Picture Story! Very happy to get this as I almost didn’t enter. I was super busy finishing things up and shoving off for Florida as the deadline arrived- really glad I found the time.
Weird day. Up til 3am sorting through the mess of a good and thorough gmail hacking (still no access to the account). This the same day I launch hundreds of epromos around the country. I’m assuming these new contacts all got the plea from Madrid to send money to me after getting mugged and beat up. Not the impression I was after. But sunny FL is cheering me up- in Miami next week to do some good work for the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Will be looking into housing and healthcare issues, maybe homeless children. Just a week to do a mountain of things- will be busy
It doesn’t always work out this way. But when the phone rang last week and NPR asked if I could do some portraits, like right now, I ran down the list of things I had planned to do that day and happily realized I could pick up the assignment. A lot of editorial shoots are short notice, and one of the more frustrating aspects of freelancing is having to turn stuff away because you’re booked, when if just given one extra day’s noticed you could have made it work. Luckily that wasn’t the case for this, and I got to hang out with a pretty interesting individual.
by Mike Kane
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