New America Media: Photo Galleries

Dying for a Glass of Clean Water in CA’s San Joaquin Valley

New America Media, Photo Essay, david bacon, Posted: Aug 22, 2011

In the small town of Lanare, locals are fighting for access to clean drinking water, a problem in many poor, rural communities across the state.

Faces of Foreclosure: Repossessing the California Dream

New America Media, News Feature, various, Posted: Jul 21, 2011

After foreclosure, homeowners pick up the pieces and re-imagine the California dream of homeownership.

Mobile Tech in Classrooms Boost English Learners

New America Media, Photo Essay, Jacob Simas and Vivian Po, Posted: Jun 27, 2011

Use of mobile devices in a Hayward, Calif., classroom puts English language learners on the fast track.

Ethnic Media Convene to Discuss Northern Virginia Redistricting Plan

New America Media, Photo Essay, Anthony Advincula, Posted: Jun 06, 2011

Ethnic media gathered in D.C. to discuss a Virginia redistricting plan that would weaken the political power of ethnic communities, despite their growing numbers.

Border Communities Are Ground Zero for Hunger

New America Media, Photo Essay, David Bacon, Posted: Apr 18, 2011

Food is hard to come by in the borderlands of southeast San Diego County, for residents as well as those just passing through.

Dental Care Crisis Draws Thousands to Free Medical Clinic

New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Apr 12, 2011

The Oakland Coliseum has been jammed with low-income patients seeking free dental and medical care—exposing the richest state’s Third World status.

Juggling for Life—Circus Performers Face the Violence of Juarez

New America Media, News Report, Story by José Luis Sierra, photos by Carolina Campos Meza, Posted: Feb 16, 2011

On the street corners of Ciudad Juarez, fire-eaters swallow their fears and clowns laugh off death through their tears.

How the P'urhépechas Came to the Coachella Valley

New America Media, Photo Essay, david bacon, Posted: Jan 12, 2011

Sitting on an Indian reservation in the southern California desert, the Duros trailer camp is now home to a large number of indigenous Mexican migrants, the P'urhépecha people.

Hotel Migrante— Where Deportees Find Shelter

New America Media, Photo Essay, photos and text, David Bacon, Posted: Dec 22, 2010

In the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment gripping the United States, no one asks what happens to the deportees once they're sent back to Mexico.

Documenting the Forgotten Faces of India's AIDS Orphans

New America Media, News Feature, Poornima Weerasekara, Posted: Dec 02, 2010

Retired Dr. Donna Guenther has been traveling to India for many years, working with—and photographing—some of the AIDS pandemic's most vulnerable victims.

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