Exhibit: Immigrants Seeking Refuge
Award-winning photographer, multimedia journalist, documentary filmmaker and Assistant Professor Thomas E. Franklin exhibited his work focused on issues related to human migration at the Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts – Blair Academy. The Pulitzer Prize finalist is a multimedia and visual storyteller who explores global issues with local and regional impact, including immigration, refugees and policies related to undocumented residents and asylum seekers. The exhibit, “Seeking Refuge: Images of the displaced by war, poverty, and persecution,” was the culmination of his work on forced migration in the past five years in Athens, Lesvos, Guadalajara, Tijuana, San Diego, Washington and New Jersey.