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Ilana Panich-Linsman (born 1984) is a visual journalist based in Austin, Texas.
Panich-Linsman was born in Arizona and grew up in western Massachusetts. [1] She received a B.A. from Scripps College. She completed the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2009. In 2014. she received an M.A. in photojournalism from the University of the Arts, London, U.K. Panich-Linsman, graduated from the International Center of Photography's photojournalism program. [2]
Panich-Linsman feels that photojournalists are drawn to documentary subjects for a reason. In general, the stories she shoots are stories that she particularly cares about. "I’m interested in women’s and children’s issues, immigration and healthcare." [3]
These interests have been the motivation for several of her major projects. Supported by a Rita K. Hillman Foundation grant she reported on children in a pediatric palliative care unit and their parents.
This particular project gave me an opportunity to begin to understand what it is like for a family to support a critically ill child, and for a palliative-care team to support that family. Perhaps it is a way to face my own fears. [4]
Curious about cultural differences when a girl begins to define herself as a woman, she followed this idea from Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan. She juxtaposed two sets of photographs, one from Brooklyn and one from the Mideast, and, found remarkable similarities. [5] [6]
Long fascinated with the child beauty-pageant industry, she was interested in learning more about the motivations of the parents and the child, as well as the idea of western beauty ideals. Panich-Linsman explores this coming-of-age theme in rural Westfield, Massachusetts, where 12-year-old Emily and her mom spend more time at beauty salons than at parties. The result was the photo series, "The Tree and the Apple" [7]
Panich-Linsman reported on the plight of Central American families attempting to immigrate to the U.S. for the New York Times. "With their belongings close and their children closer," with video and photographs, she documented the scene at a McAllen, Texas, bus station, which was described as America's new Ellis Island. [8] Panich-Linsman took frame by frame photos of the migrants waiting in line, to develop a panoramic image. The Times felt this was critical to the story, emphazing to the readers that the migrants are real people. According to the New York Times reporter discussing the article: "What makes this story stand out is the visual focus on the migrants, some who risked their lives to stand in line at that bus station." Panich-Linsman also conducted on-the-fly interviews with migrants in 105-degree heat about the next phase in their lives. Panich-Linsman has worked at the border extensively since moving to Texas in 2014. [9]
Other works from south Texas include features about a female mariachi band, [10] girls growing up in a border town [11] and difficulties for children with transgender identity. [12]
Border cities like those in the Rio Grande Valley have been the subject of increased national coverage since President Trump’s election. Since the start of 2019, in hopes they might better learn about, and from, the people who make their homes there, The New York Times has assigned Ilana Panich-Linsman to live and work in McAllen, Texas. [13]
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from cross-border crime and illegal immigration that threaten national security and public safety.
Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography by having a rigid ethical framework which demands an honest and impartial approach that tells a story in strictly journalistic terms. Photojournalists contribute to the news media, and help communities connect with one other. They must be well-informed and knowledgeable, and are able to deliver news in a creative manner that is both informative and entertaining.
The United States border with Mexico is one of the world's "most lethal land borders". Hundreds of migrants die per year as they attempt to cross into the United States from Mexico illegally. The US Border Patrol reported 251 migrant deaths in the fiscal year 2015, which was lower than any year during the period 2000–2014, and reported 247 migrant deaths in fiscal year 2020, lower than any year since 1998. Poverty, gang violence, poor governance, etc. are the main factors as to why migrants cross the US border. US Border Patrol recorded 557 southwest border deaths during fiscal year 2021 and 748 in the first 11 months of fiscal year 2022, the most deaths ever recorded.
Edward Thomas Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photograph of the summary execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong prisoner of war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1969. Adams was a resident of Bogota, New Jersey.
Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer known for her photojournalism, documentary photography, portraiture, and advertising photography. She photographed people who were "away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes".
Steve McCurry is an American photographer, freelancer, and photojournalist. His photo Afghan Girl, of a girl with piercing green eyes, has appeared on the cover of National Geographic several times. McCurry has photographed many assignments for National Geographic and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1986.
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John Godfrey Morris was an American picture editor, author and journalist, and an important figure in the history of photojournalism.
Matt Black is an American documentary photographer whose work has focused on issues of poverty, migration, and the environment. He is a full member of Magnum Photos. Black's first book, American Geography, was published in 2021 and was exhibited at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany.
Olivia Arthur is a British documentary photographer, based in London. She is a member of the Magnum Photos agency and has produced the books Jeddah Diary (2012) and Stranger (2015).
The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under 18 years of age, who has no lawful immigration status in the U.S., and who does not have a legal guardian to provide physical custody and care.
The United States family separation policy under the Trump administration was presented to the public as a "zero tolerance" approach intended to deter illegal immigration and to encourage tougher legislation. In some cases, families following the legal procedure to apply for asylum at official border crossings were also separated. It was officially adopted across the entire US–Mexico border from April 2018 until June 2018. Under the policy, federal authorities separated children and infants from parents or guardians with whom they had entered the US. The adults were prosecuted and held in federal jails or deported, and the children were placed under the supervision of the US Department of Health and Human Services. More than 5,500 children, including infants, were removed and up to 2,000 still have not been reunited as of March 2024.
Protests against the Trump administration family separation policy are a reaction to the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents or guardians who crossed the U.S. border either illegally or to request asylum, jailing the adults and locating the minors at separate facilities under the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
John Moore is an American photographer. He works for Getty images among others. His work has received several awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 2005. His photograph of a two-year-old girl, crying as US Border Patrol officers begin to search her mother prior to taking both of them into custody for illegally crossing the US-Mexican border, was named World Press Photo 2018.
Family detention is the detention of multiple family members together in an immigration detention context. In the U.S. they are referred to as family detention camps,family detention centers, or family detention facilities.
Unaccompanied Alien Children is a United States government classification for children in immigration custody and the name of a program operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to house and care for them. The term designates unaccompanied minors who are aliens, typically those who have been apprehended outside of a legal port of entry or judged inadmissible upon their entry.
Krisanne Johnson is an American photojournalist. She is the winner of the 2011 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Her work on post-apartheid South Africa and on HIV/AIDS and young women in Swaziland have appeared in Time,The New Yorker,The New York Times,The Fader, and The Wall Street Journal.
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin and Felipe Gómez Alonzo were Guatemalan immigrant children who died, in separate incidents, while in the custody of the United States Border Patrol in December 2018, after having entered the country, by crossing the border between Mexico and the United States.
The Trump administration has detained migrants attempting to enter the United States at the United States–Mexico border. Government reports from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General in May 2019 and July 2019 found that migrants had been detained under conditions that failed federal standards. These conditions have included prolonged detention, overcrowding, and poor hygiene and food standards. The beginning of the policy is falsely attributed to the Trump administration, beginning in the Presidency of Barack Obama.
Cecilia Ballí is an American journalist and anthropologist who writes about the borderlands of Texas, security and immigration. She is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, and has been published in Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Magazine as an independent journalist. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and was a staff writer at the San Antonio Express-News from 1998 to 2000.