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Rose City Uprising

Changed Forever

The Far Right

Far right groups held rallies in Oregon throughout 2020, often engaging in violence with leftist counterprotesters.

Quarantine

Portraits from Oregon’s stay-at-home order.

Unhoused in a pandemic

Oregon Wildfires

Wildfires in Oregon killed at least 11 people, burned more than 1,000,000 acres and came within a few miles of Portland.

The Last House

Originally published by PRI.

Afghanistan

A selection of singles from 2011.

Boxing | Mexico City

Boxing is Mexico's second favorite sport after soccer and many of the country's most legendary boxers come from Mexico City's notorious Colonia Morelos neighborhood. For Pancho boxing could be a way to stay out of trouble but first he has to show up. 

Fútbol Americano | Mexico

American football is booming in Mexico. It's currently the number two sport and its popularity is trending steeply upward. From little league up through universities and new professional league, Mexico loves American football. 

Johanna (multimedia)

Johanna was working as a human rights advocate in El Salvador when she witnessed the assassination of a prominent LGBT activist. Fearing for her life, she fled to Mexico. Since arriving she has been unable to secure a job and has been forced into sex work in order to survive. Mexico sells itself as an accepting place for the LGBT community. But for transgender refugees fleeing violence in Central America it fails to live up to those promises.

Afghan Ski Challenge

In Bamiyan, best known for its giant Buddha statues blown up by the Taliban a decade ago, mountainous villages with no electricity, kept warm by dung-fueled heaters, saw their first skier in early 2010.

Danilo | Trans Refugee

A transgender refugee fleeing gang violence in El Salvador seeks asylum in Mexico where he finds threats to his safety and wellbeing were not left behind in El Salvador.

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La Última Frontera | Mexico

-The Last Border-

In October 2015 a surge of Cuban refugees making their way to the United States via Mexico overwhelmed Mexican migration officials. When they reached the banks of the Suchiate River they had been travling for 25+ days and had crossed 7 borders. Crossing the river was their 8th and final border before the most perilous stretch of their journey—Mexico. 

Faltan 43 | Ayotzinapa

-43 Missing-

On September 26, 2014 forty three students from the Ayotzinapa normal school were kidnapped and murdered by municipal police and cartel affiliated gunmen in Iguala, Mexico. The event laid bare Mexico's rampant government corruption and cartel violence, and catalyzed widespread civil unrest throughout the country. 

Pushed Out | D.C.

Portraits from D.C.'s rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Seems Like Home (multimedia)

They travel 500 miles a day, preforming every night, surviving on beer and truck stop food– as they have done for 15 years.

Their fans are infatuated young women and music aficionados enthralled by their raw talent.

Regarded by some in the business as the most talented musicians in music, this is the story of folk-rock duo Two Gallants as they grapple with what today’s version of success means to them and play every seedy music venue on the seemingly endless road across the United States.  

 

Vanity | Guatemala

The Miss Antigua beauty pageant and La Fabrica Gimnasio's Bodybuilding contest took place on the same weekend in July in Antigua, Guatemala.

Rose City Uprising

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 Protesters in Portland demonstrated for racial justice and against police violence for more than 200 days in 2020.

Changed Forever

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 Serenity and Pooh roller skate on the 16th anniversary of the shooting that almost killed them both.

The Far Right

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 On the 100th consecutive night of mass protests against systemic racism and police brutality in Portland, protesters gathered in East Portland and clashed with police for hours. Police, who arrested 59 people throughout the night, declared the gathe

Quarantine

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 Grace Wolfe stands for a portrait in her apartment during Oregon’s stay home, stay safe order on April 3, 2020 in Portland, Oregon.

Unhoused in a pandemic

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Oregon Wildfires

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 Kyle St. Clair and his wife Kerina prepare to evacuate at their home on Sept. 9 2020 in Molalla, Oregon. Four wildfires continued gaining ground in Clackamas County aided by high winds in Malalla, Oregon, on September 9, 2020.

The Last House

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 ROSARITO, MEXICO- Feb 15, 2018: Emily Albert looks out at the Pacific Ocean 48 hours after doing Ibogaine to treat her opioid addiction on February 15, 2018 in Rosarito, Mexico. Ibogaine is a psychedelic drug that is illegal in the United States but

Afghanistan

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Boxing | Mexico City

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 Mexico City, Mexico- Feb 28, 2017:  Fifteen year-old Pancho, an aspiring boxer from Morelos, wraps his hands before training on February 28, 2017 in the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. Pancho's coach, Jorge Angeles, hopes he'll compete in Mexico

Fútbol Americano | Mexico

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 MONTERREY, MEXICO - JUNE 8, 2016: Offensive lineman Omar Edgar Benitez Palma drapes himself in the Mexican flag after his team's 36-3 victory over Japan at the 2016 American Football World University Championship on June 08, 2016 in Monterrey, Mexic

Johanna (multimedia)

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Afghan Ski Challenge

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 For this year's championship, the Afghan competitors were handpicked from the mountain villages and given two months of daily training by professional Western ski instructors and mountain guides. Koh-e-Baba Mountains, Afghanistan. March 1, 2012

Danilo | Trans Refugee

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 TAPACHULA, MEXICO - January 8: Danielo Munguia, 34, from El Salvador,  in the one room house he shares with three other people on January 8, 2016 in Tapachula, Mexico. Danielo is transgendered but had all of his clothing robbed while staying at a sh

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La Última Frontera | Mexico

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 Cuban refugees come ashore on the Mexican side of the Suchiate River after crossing from Guatemala. While this is the last country they have to traverse before reaching the United States, it's also considered the most dangerous for them as they navi

Faltan 43 | Ayotzinapa

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 AYOTZINAPA, MEXICO - NOVEMBER 13: A student from the Ayotzinapa normal school walks past one of many revolutionary themed murals at the school that says, "We are rebel dignity," on November 13, 2014 in Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Forty three students from t

Pushed Out | D.C.

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Seems Like Home (multimedia)

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Vanity | Guatemala

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 A classroom is converted into a prep room at the Gimnasio La Fábrica bodybuilding contest in Antigua, Guatemala on July 19, 2014.

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