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“La cruel realidad”

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“La cruel realidad”, or the "cruel reality", is an ongoing portrait project of undocumented families living in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The aspiration is to visually depict the familial fragmentation that occurs when undocumented parents are deported and their documented children remain, left in limbo.
The name of this project was chosen by several of the families. As part of the project each family also receives a "normal" family photograph, often the first and only that they have.
Maranie is self-taught and has been published in Esquire, CNN, Huffington Post, Mashable, Rudaw and for numerous Pittsburgh area newspapers and magazines.
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“La cruel realidad”, or the "cruel reality", is an ongoing portrait project of undocumented families living in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The aspiration is to visually depict the familial fragmentation that occurs when undocumented parents are deported and their documented children remain, left in limbo.
The name of this project was chosen by several of the families. As part of the project each family also receives a "normal" family photograph, often the first and only that they have.
About author:
Maranie is a Pittsburgh-based, independent photographer and journalist working to document human rights issues and the periphery of conflict -- how violence and war affects individuals and societies. Her work focuses on people and especially those in marginalized parts of society — whether domestically or abroad. She photographs with the aspiration to dispel misconceptions, to underline the common humanity that unites us all, and to further understanding of a world outside of our own. To date, her work has taken her throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Africa and to the Middle East.Maranie is self-taught and has been published in Esquire, CNN, Huffington Post, Mashable, Rudaw and for numerous Pittsburgh area newspapers and magazines.
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