S7E5 - Migrants' Belongings, Saved and Photographed by Tom Kiefer
For Keeps
English - August 01, 2019 11:00 - 29 minutes - 43.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsHobbies Leisure Society & Culture Documentary collections collectors forkeeps forkeepspodcast memorabilia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Working for years as a janitor at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Ajo, Arizona, photographer Tom Kiefer collected the confiscated — and discarded — personal items of migrants who were detained at the station. Today, he reverentially documents those salvaged belongings in El Sueño Americano, his photography project that's getting a lot of notice these days.
Tom's website and Instagram feed • Opening theme: "Keepers" by Still Flyin' • Closing theme: "Slow Draw/Feeling In My Heart" by Eric Frisch • Additional music by Sun Belt, Mike Grigoni, and Gabriel Naïm Amor • www.forkeepspodcast.com
(All items photographed by Tom Kiefer; photo of Tom is a still from a video produced by the Saugatuck Center for the Arts.)