The project is a collection of 300 portraits featuring people holding whiteboard placards on which they’ve written details of their ethnic heritage. In the wake of the last presidential election, Samandari was motivated to explore his own experience as an immigrant.

“Right from the get-go during the candidacy and post-election, there was a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment coming from the White House. I thought about doing this project to talk about the history of this country,” he said, which was “made by immigrants.” (Nicholas Frank, The Rivard Report) Read more…