“A Long Journey Home” is a series of portraits of refugees, who came from the Middle East, from East Africa, from Asia, looking for safety and a future for their families. Their portraits are taken with the historic wet plate collodion (tintype) process that was used in the late 1800s to the early 1900s, when millions of migrants came to the Unites States looking for the same stability as refugees now hope for in this country. Their tintype photographs will be exhibited with old photos of migrants, who arrived to the United States before WWII. With this parallel, I intend to show similarities between those Europeans who established themselves here and became important parts of the society and those still fragile, but hard-working refugees, who came here relatively recently hoping to become Americans and give back to this country who gave them a new life.
