Reportage Portfolio

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Jean, now 21, says she is attempting to rebuild her life in East Texas, starting with getting her GED and driver’s license.

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Scott Nicol, co-chair of the Sierra Club Borderlands Campaign stands near the border fence in Hidalgo, TX.

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Klevelin Lion chants at the front of the "Day Without Immigrants" march on Congress Avenue, in Austin, TX.

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Earth from this pit, and others like it, is used to repair and maintain heavily trafficked roads throughout University Lands.

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Pamela Taylor, 89, has lived on her late husband's family land since she immigrated from England during WWII. The home he built for her, adding a room with each of their four children, is between the Rio Grande River and the border fence. She keeps two coolers stocked with water and soda for crossers but quickly calls the Customs and Border Patrol officers whenever she sees someone on her property.

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Wisconsinites Jane Wery, David Sanft, Dana Sanft, and Ray Wery look for wildlife with the help of volunteer tour guide Jan Mould Resaca de la Palma. Birding tourism, a huge industry in the Rio Grande Valley, could be affected by negative environmental impacts of the border wall.

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The Southmost Preserve, once a citrus orchard and for-profit sabal palm nursery, now uses the distribution shop for storing seeds from the land.

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John Green reunites with his son in the middle of the Darrington Unit gym at the start of the Day with Dad program. Children and the 29 participating inmates each ran to each other's arms as the kick-off to the day of events.

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A Harris County Jail employee signals to the video camera to send the elevator to the 4th floor.

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Amy Litzinger poses outside of a bathroom stall, too small for her and her attendant to shut the door during use, compromising her privacy, before a committee meeting in the Texas Health and Human Services building. Amy Litzinger, along with other Texans who have disabilities, is concerned about the implications the "Bathroom Bill" will have on her and her attendants.

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Senior Eastman Barnard processes a cranium after the body decomposition on the FARF.

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Clifford Winfrey sings a Christian song with fellow inmates before reuniting with his two daughters in the annual Day with Dad program at the Darrington Unit.

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Feldenkrais practioner Lisa Del Rosario poses for a portrait.

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Women "walk the track" on a stretch of Bissonnet Street between Highway 59 and Beltway 8, in Houston, Texas. Pimps gather nearby in fast food and strip-mall parking lots, connected to their prostitutes by phone and "corner-watchers", as potential johns circle and standard traffic passes through.

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The Harris County Jail hosts "Been There, Done That", a prostitution rehabilitation program.

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Tom "Smitty" Smith is retiring from his longtime role as the Texas director of Public Citizen.

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Swimmers simultaneously jump into Barton Springs while yelling "Hell Yes" in support of the nonprofit Friends of Barton Springs Pool.

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