The American Dream

Jack (a pseudonym), an Asian man, struggled for over ten years in the United States without obtaining legal immigration status and was ultimately forced to leave. Before his departure, he took this photograph at the John F. Kennedy Museum in Boston.

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Xiaoping Lin
Xiamen
In the summer morning, the sunshine pours onto the surface of the Yundang Lake, and the egrets and big fish are busy catching small fish. The egret was one step ahead of the big fish and caught the small fish. The big fish rushed out of the water, opened its big mouth, made a silent protest, and…
Anastasia Fedotova
Port Louis
They sit in the quiet, carrying the weight of countless untold stories. They are the keepers of a strength that doesn’t shout, that doesn’t seek validation. Their silence is not emptiness; it is filled with the echoes of lives lived through struggle, love, loss, and endurance. In their eyes rests…
Eliot Charof
Los Angeles
When I was a kid growing up in Massachusetts, we used to visit our grandparents in Los Angeles each summer. They would take us down to Muscle Beach in Venice to watch the bodybuilders and buy us Arnold Schwarzenegger t-shirts, making us feel like the strongest kids in the world. That memory always…
Val Adams
Huntsville
This Image was inspired by the early 2000's party scene. Alex, my model, has always struck me as someone who embodies that. I needed an image with plenty of contrast for a drawing assignment, so i asked her to model for me. This image has always stood out to me. It conveys the desperate need…