VISA POUR L’IMAGE

International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan, France

Evening Screening Program

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

 
 

GRESHAM COLLEGE

THE HUMAN COST OF IMMIGRATION DETENTION

GRESHAM COLLEGE VISITING LECTURE SERIES


MARCH 2024

 
 

GLOBAL DETENTION PROJECT

DOCUMENTING DETENTION

April 2023


IMMIGRANT MASS

By composer: Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez

Greg Constantine - Visuals & Interviews

Online premier: MAY 21, 2021

Live Premier: NOVEMBER 4, 2021

 

The six movement Immigrant Mass is a fusion of the mass ordinary by Chicago-based composer Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez. The composition includes immigrant experiences and photography collected by documentary photographer Greg Constantine from the project Seven Doors and the photo-testimonial essay American Gulag. Immigrant Mass was first released as an online multimedia film. It is a mixed-media performance reflecting the lives and struggles of those who have sought better lives in America and the impact of immigration detention. Soloists incorporate parts of testimonials gathered from the project Seven Doors.

Carlos Jaquez Gonzalez premiered his Immigrant Mass multimedia film online on May 22, 2021. The film was performed by the Chicago Composers Orchestra, Roosevelt University Conservatory Choir, led by Dr. Cheryl Frazes-Hill and soloists.

On November 4, 2021, Immigrant Mass was performed to a live audience of over 200 people in Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University in Chicago. The live performance was the final program of Roosevelt University’s the American Dream Reconsidered Conference. The performance was conducted by Dr. Cheryl Frazes-Hill and performed by the Roosevelt University Conservatory Choir and Orchestra.

Many of the images and testimonies included in Immigrant Mass first appeared in the exhibition: DETAINED (Oct. 2019 - June 2020) at Gage Gallery at Roosevelt University.

 

‘How a Haunting exhibit on immigration led a Roosevelt University student to create a multimedia ‘Mass’ on the horrors of ICE Detention.’

Hannah Edgar,

Chicago Tribune,

May 12, 2021


TRUMP REVOLUTION

BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER

GROUP EXHIBITION

CINTHYA SANTOS-BRIONES, GREG CONSTANTINE, KHOLOOD EID, JIM GOLDBERG, JOHN MOORE, LUIS ANTONIO ROJAS,

GRISELDA SAN MARTIN, LAURA SAUNDERS & MAGNUM PHOTOS

FEBRUARY 15 - MARCH 29, 2020

Trump Revolution: Immigration, examines the current president’s role in overturning decades of immigration policy in the United States—and the profound effects of that upheaval on American society and the lives of millions of immigrants.

…Ultimately, this exhibition seeks neither to comfort nor explain, but instead offers a tapestry of impressions so that visitors may bear witness to this administration’s actions and ask each other what it means to call America home.

Bronx Documentary Center

 

“Greg Constantine produced Seven Doors: American Gulag… A photo series on migrants’ detention centers. In a raw, realistic monochrome, he captures these spaces, lost in isolated territories – the facilities are built there to be out of sight from the American public, thus making difficult any contact with a family or a lawyer – and captures the dehumanization of inmates. A brave project, raising awareness.”

Lou Tsatsas, Fisheye Magazine


DETAINED

STORIES OF IMMIGRATION DETENTION

GAGE GALLERY

ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY, CHICAGO

OCTOBER 17, 2019 - MARCH 29, 2020

The exhibition DETAINED: Stories of Immigration Detention include large scale panoramas of detention centers around the country, as well as audio accounts taken from interviews recorded by the photographer from individuals who were detained and/or deported. The transcribed interviews are read by Roosevelt University students, and are playing on a loop in the gallery during the exhibition.

“Barren land, industrial facilities, deserts and then a small concrete building in the middle of the void. These are the scenes portrayed in the 12 panoramic photographs covering the walls of the Gage Gallery in Chicago’s Loop…The series sheds a light on how ominous detention facilities really look from the outside, accompanied by stories from people who were caught inside.”

Carolina Gonzalez, Medill Reports