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    Recent Photography Along the US and Mexico Border

    Recent Photography Along the US and Mexico Border

    Nogales Border Crossing – Images by Pat Shannahan I went on a recent trip to Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, with a reporter from our sister newspaper La Voz. We spent a day working on a story about unaccompanied minor immigrants and the next day we went out with an officer from Grupo Beta. They are a [...]

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    Leaving Arizona: A Family of Illegal Immigrants Flee's Arizona's Immigration Law

    Leaving Arizona: A Family of Illegal Immigrants Flee’s Arizona’s Immigration Law

    Over the summer I worked with reporter Dan Gonzalez on a photo story following two families of illegal immigrants living in the West Valley as they moved to Pennsylvania because of Arizona’s new immigration law SB1070. I concentrated on the Sanchez family. Luis, the dad, and his wife Marlen both came to the U.S. illegally. [...]

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    U.S./ Mexico Border

    U.S./ Mexico Border

    US Mexico Border – Images by Pat Shannahan The U.S./Mexico border stretches for over 350 miles through Arizona. This collection of photos is from an ongoing story I am working on documenting the struggles along the border.

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    Covering Arizona's New Immigration Law SB1070

    Covering Arizona’s New Immigration Law SB1070

    SB1070 Arizona’s New Immigration Law – Images by Pat Shannahan The summer of 2010 will certainly be remembered in Arizona as the summer of SB1070, also known as Arizona’s new controversial immigration law. The nations eyes turned on Arizona as both sides of the immigration debate held protests and counter protests. It was an interesting [...]

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    Video: The Boxcar

    Holocaust survivor Helan Handler last saw her family together in a boxcar on the way to Auschwitz. She was the only member of her family to survive. She is on the board of a group that have brought a similar boxcar to Arizona to be part of The Holocaust & Tolerance Museum.

    Apr 14, 2012 | Categories:Blog/ Daily Work, Thumbnail slider | Tags: , , | Leave A Comment »

    Video: Unusual Twist

    Judy spins her yarn with an extra special ingredient; one that is found very close to home.

    I really enjoyed hanging out with Judy. She does this with the hopes of finding an animal rescue group to help out. She’s a kind hearted lady with a good sense of humor. I looked online to see if I could find anyone else who does this sort of thing and I came across a photographer who did a portrait series of people wearing clothes knitted from their dog’s fur.

    Apr 14, 2012 | Categories:Blog/ Daily Work, Thumbnail slider | Leave A Comment »

    Video: Pot Bellied Love

    So how passionate are you about the things you care about? Would you give up your paycheck? How about never taking a vacation? That’s how passionate this couple is about pot bellied pigs. They rescue them by the hundreds.

    Mar 03, 2012 | Categories:Blog/ Daily Work, Multimedia, Thumbnail slider | Tags: , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

    Video: It’s Never Too Late

    Larry is a 72-year-old retired truck driver who never learned to read, until he started taking classes four days a week with a reading teacher in Chandler, AZ. He didn’t speak until he was 10-years-old because of a medical condition. Schools in the rural Ohio area he grew up in passed him along from grade to grade. His goal is to one day read to his great grandkids.

    Dec 24, 2011 | Categories:Blog/ Daily Work, Multimedia, Thumbnail slider | Tags: , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

    Emmy Win

    I’m excited to share that a video package I shot and produced won a Rocky Mountain Emmy in the environmental category. It is The Arizona Republic’s first Emmy. The story is a profile on a local cotton farmer who is a pioneer in water conservation. It’s encouraging to see that all of our paper’s hard work in video storytelling is paying off. If you would have told me five years ago that I would be shooting video packages for TV I would have thought you were crazy. Now multimedia storytelling is my favorite part of my job.

    Oct 26, 2011 | Categories:Blog/ Daily Work, Thumbnail slider | Tags: , , , , | Leave A Comment »