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Thousands of Haitian refugee families continue to be stranded in Tijuana, a city far from where they hoped would be their final destination. Since their arrival, photojournalist Omar Martínez has been documenting their Mexican lives.
Recent productions set in Los Angeles continue to highlight the distance between the Hollywood imagination and the people living here.
![[Left] "Santa Barbara Brown Berets aka Moratorium in Maravilla" 1970. | Photo: Oscar Castillo || [Right] "Not One More (Girl with Beret)" 2016. | Photo: Rafael Cardenas](https://kcet.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c292104/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1285x723+1+0/resize/1536x864!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkcet-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkl%2Ffiles%2Fthumbnails%2Fimage%2Ffeatured_oscar_castillo_and_rafael_cardenas_photos_brown_be.jpg)
Protest photographs bridge Latino youth cultures across space and time. They remind us that Chicano youth continue to not only speak out about injustice but thrive despite it.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, so are the stories behind how this massive collection came to be.
In Mercedes Dorame's photographs, cultural artifacts come together with natural elements of the landscape in scenes of rituals. She aims to engage her viewers’ interest, hoping they’ll be inspired to dig deeper into Native histories.
Navajo photographer Pamela J. Peters re-imagines Hollywood silver screen heartthrobs as Native American, and examines how the film and TV industries have portrayed indigenous people in the past.
Hollywood at the turn of the 20th century was a small country hamlet where lemon trees outnumbered people.
By documenting every federally recognized tribe in the United States, photographer Matika Wilbur wants to change the way the world views Native Americans.
Four California artists — Gerald Clarke Jr., Mercedes Dorame, Votan Henriquez and Pamela J. Peters — confront the issue of indigenous identity through painting, photography, sculpture and film.
"Spa Night" director Andrew Ahn says that a major force driving him to make films is a desire to tell the stories of queer people of color not represented in mainstream media.
For artists working in and around UC San Diego's art department, photography became a connective thread. And one group of early MFA students pushed their experimentation of photography front and center.
By photographing private and public collections, artist Ángela Bonadies explores how memories are preserved, both individually and collectively.