PORTRAITS & SOUNDTRACKS

2019-2023 / THE MIGRATION OF MANY, STEELTON, PENNSYLVANIA

A lot of people on the Steelton soundtrack talk about their experience of migration as well as their parents and grandparents migration from Europe and the US South. People also spoke about racism, safety in the steel mill, the importance of Local Union 1688 and how it saved the mill.

bykatebrowne · Cocoon Steelton: The Migrations Of Many

Portraits of the inhabitants of Steelton, PA © Eric Etheridge

2017-2019 / FOLLOWING THE REMOVALS, MISKOLC, HUNGARY

Many Hungarian Roma spoke about working in the steel mill alongside their fathers and uncles and growing up in the Numbered Streets neighborhood. They talked about having their homes destroyed, inspections, selling everything, hiding with their children before fleeing to Canada. And they spoke about going through passport control in transfer cities then being removed from the boarding line to Canada.

bykatebrowne · Cocoon Miskolc: Following the Removals

Portraits of the inhabitants of Numbered Streets, Miskolc, HU © Eric Etheridge

2016-2018 / TRACING THE BULLET, THE BRONX, NEW YORK CITY

On this soundtrack many people share the loss of family members, neighbors, and patients in the gun violence epidemic that followed the fires. I interviewed all the people involved in shootings: family members, gun violence prevention groups, emergency medical technicians, trauma units, blood workers, surgeons, PSA 7 housing police, school principals, morticians.