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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 1d

@adriano-kalin.bsky.social is doing the work of documenting, with photography and words, what's going on in Chicago with the protests and the ICE invasion. I'm proud to support his Substack and this critical work: adrianokalin.substack.com

Please consider doing the same.

The People's Aperture | Adriano Kalin | Substack

A social justice photography blog by Adriano Kalin. Documenting resilience and resistance one frame at a time through the lens of disability, BIPOC perspectives, and everyday life. Click to read The P...

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Jen Mierisch @jenmierisch.bsky.social · 8d

Adriano Kalin is doing incredible work documenting what's been going on here in Chicago.

Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · 10d

Want to know what happened in Broadview, IL (a Chicago suburb), when ICE attacked protestors outside their facility?
Here is my firsthand account of what happened during the 48 hours of hell.

#immigrants #ice #press #photojournalism #chicago #photogrphy #independentjournalist

Documenting U.S. State Violence on Citizens Exercising Constitutional Rights.

Broadview, IL September 26 - 27, 2025.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9d

It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.

Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.

But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · 10d

Want to know what happened in Broadview, IL (a Chicago suburb), when ICE attacked protestors outside their facility?
Here is my firsthand account of what happened during the 48 hours of hell.

#immigrants #ice #press #photojournalism #chicago #photogrphy #independentjournalist

Documenting U.S. State Violence on Citizens Exercising Constitutional Rights.

Broadview, IL September 26 - 27, 2025.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · 13d

This was shot on September 19, 2025, and you can see from the silhouette of the person I photographed the chemical agent residue that is airborne, which was affecting the breathing capacity, skin, and eyes of every peaceful protester while they are in full military grade gear.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · 14d

My hope is that more voices rise up now, because silence only deepens the harm. A community is only as strong as the way it treats its most vulnerable, and right now this country is failing that test.

#ice #chicago #socialjustice #immigration #photography

The Cost of Looking Away.

The walls are being put up around all of our freedom.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · 18d

Outside the ICE detention center in Broadview, IL, ICE is harassing and targeting protesters, media, and activists who speak up for civil rights. Sept 19, 2025

Thank you for standing up against injustice, Rachel! @theangrymathprof.bsky.social

Here is the article: open.substack.com/pub/adrianok...

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Sep 9

New article is up. Please read. It's very important.

Content Warning: This article contains explicit material, including a historical photograph of a lynching from the 1930s. The image is central to the subject matter, but it may be disturbing.

In America: lynching feels closer than freedom in America.

Content Warning: This article contains explicit material, including a historical photograph of a lynching from the 1930s. The image is central to the subject matter, but it may be disturbing.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you don’t think he will use ICE at polling places to do voter intimidation, you need to really wake up. He is doing everything in his “power” to obliterate the Constitution, and people’s blind racism is enabling it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 3

Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Aug 10

Finding peace in the time of chaos by Adriano Kalin.

Finding peace in the time of chaos

How photography helps me cope with doom scrolling.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Trump is building a 200-million-dollar ballroom at the White House while we are financially struggling to make ends meet for our basic needs.

I am so tired of this.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 31

A conversation that is not talked about enough is that being disabled and constantly being hounded by medical companies and debt collectors simply because you're trying to survive in a system that does not value you.

I desperately want universal healthcare.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Come here legally,” says the descendant of someone who showed up during Manifest Destiny, committed genocide, and called it progress.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 28

"Your mind races, wondering if you’ll make it home safely or if today will be the day when I am met with my biggest fear, to be abducted and never heard from again."

Fear Is a Systemic Weapon: My Body is Paying the Price

How trauma dismantles our sense of self.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 24

How having a TBI affects my photography.

Photography & Having a Traumatic Brain Injury

YouTube video by Adriano Kalin

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 19

I think as AI keeps becoming more annoying in our current timeline, we’re going to crave human interaction and authentic art.

This Is Why Street Photography Still Matters

YouTube video by Adriano Kalin

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 17

I literally can't think of one department Trump implemented to benefit anyone who is not in the top 1%. I am not trying to be funny, I literally can't think of one thing he has done to benefit any of us.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 15

9 unelected officials shouldn't have so much power, especially when some of them are actively going against the will of the people and representing corporations and religious entities instead.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 14

Photography as Resistance in America. As an immigrant. As a brown man in America. I am tired but I refuse to be silent. Photography is one of the best assets on showing our humanity.

Photography as Resistance in America

Hope, the idea of resistance.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 14

My first YouTube video is a personal introduction to my work as a social justice photographer caught in the crosshairs of Trump’s racist policies targeting immigrants like me.

Photographing Injustice as an Immigrant in the U.S.

YouTube video by Adriano Kalin

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 6

One reason I love black-and-white photography is that I can't use color as a distraction. I simply have to respond to the chaos in front of me and use compositions to translate an emotion through shadows and highlights.

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jul 6

If my photos bring even a moment of tenderness to your timeline, then I’ve done my job. I try to photograph the empathy that holds us all together.

Na vida, tem que jogar bonito.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · Jun 25

This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism

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Adriano Kalin @adriano-kalin.bsky.social · Jun 25

Take the photograph, it may not be for everyone, and that is okay.

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