What We're Looking For...
What We're Looking For...
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The goal of this project is to collect images of artwork and signage that mark where people have been taken by ICE. We are specifically looking for materials that mark and commemorate abductions.
We are not accepting photos or videos of active detentions or community rapid responses to ICE activity. This is not a collection for photos of the Renee Good or Alex Pretti Memorials. While there is lots of protest art and other memorialization efforts worth documenting, other projects are doing that work. We are focused on documenting how people are commemorating abductions.
Make sure that your photo clearly shows any text or imagery and that the text is readable.
Do not upload photos with faces or identifiable residential addresses in them. These photos will become part of a public photo collection, so we want to protect everyone’s privacy. If you accidentally submit a photo with people or addresses in it, we will likely exclude it from the public photo collection.
The Here & Gone project reserves the right to exclude any submitted images in the public photo collection that may violate privacy or otherwise be inappropriate for this project.
Join the effort to build a community photo archive of the artwork, signs, and commemorative objects that could soon disappear from our streets.
Join the effort to build a community photo archive of the artwork, signs, and commemorative objects that could soon disappear from our streets.
Share photos you have already taken. Keep your eyes out for signs, graffiti, or artwork on the street. Or, head to places where you know someone was taken by ICE. Alternatively, some crowdsourced databases have marked where disappearances have been reported.
Take photos of any signage, graffiti, or artwork. Or if you feel inspired, make and contribute your own commemorative artwork or sign.
Upload those images here.
We must act quickly to preserve the memory of these abductions.
Important note about privacy:
Important note about privacy:
We will not deliberately publish identifying information if submitted images are made public, such as your name or email. However, we cannot guarantee anonymity due to technical and/or legal factors outside of our control.
Photo uploads are collected using an institutional license of Qualtrics. We are using Qualtrics because it does not require an email to upload photos.
The original photos volunteers upload might contain identifying information, such as EXIF data (Exchangeable Image File Format). We are not deliberately collecting or sharing personal data, but the file you upload may contain identifying information unless you remove it. We will not publish EXIF data, except photo orientation and location, when publishing photographs.
We recognize that collecting location information about abductions is a sensitive activity. Neighbors remain vulnerable to immigration enforcement and these are sites of serious trauma. Since these are photos of artwork and signs in public locations and geospatial data of abduction sites already exists in the public domain, we will be using location data to map the collection of photos and make it publicly available. By attaching photos to sites of abduction we hope to show how communities are responding to abduction and defining for themselves who belongs in their neighborhoods. Based on a continuing risk analysis, we may map approximate location or organize photos at the neighborhood level. We will not publish photos that contain visible residential addresses, faces, or other identifying information and will crop or blur out details prior to publishing.
We encourage you to assess the potential risks for others when uploading your photo and take appropriate steps to protect against continued vulnerability. You can delete location data prior to uploading by removing it in your photos app (Instructions for Google Photos or Apple Photos) or by taking a screenshot of the photo. We have still included a question about approximate location which you may opt in or out of answering. To learn more about metadata in photos, see this guide from the University of Michigan.
Additional project information:
See the Here & Gone Website for additional information.
These photos will be shared publicly as soon as possible and exist in the public domain. Public domain works belong to everyone and no one. These photos are shared cultural and intellectual items that are free for anyone to use, copy, modify, distribute, or build upon without charge or permission.
Anyone can submit a photo of a commemoration with this submission form. If you have more than 5 photos and would prefer to use a bulk upload option instead of this form, contact us at hereandgoneMN@proton.me.
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