Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants

Product Description

Finding Home is a celebration of people from other countries who have resettled in New Hampshire, a state known for low cultural diversity. Photographer Becky Field has been documenting cultural diversity in the state since 2012. Now, in addition to their portraits, she met with 40 immigrants to record and transcribe their memories of life in the home country and their journeys to find a new home in the Granite State. Some came to escape violence; some came for love; some came for education. Some are teenagers with a lot of life ahead of them; some are elders with long memories of their journeys. The stories show the resilience and determination of people to find a safe home, good education for their children, work to support their families, and freedom to practice their faith. The photographic portraits show the beauty and vitality of cultural diversity that contributes to all our communities.

Review

Midwest Book Review
Synopsis: “Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants” is a celebration of people from other countries who have resettled in New Hampshire, a state known for low cultural diversity.
Photographer Becky Field has been documenting cultural diversity in the state since 2012. Now, in addition to their portraits, she met with 40 immigrants to record and transcribe their memories of life in the home country and their journeys to find a new home in the Granite State.
Some came to escape violence; some came for love; some came for education. Some are teenagers with a lot of life ahead of them; some are elders with long memories of their journeys. The stories comprising “Finding Home” show the resilience and determination of people to find a safe home, good education for their children, work to support their families, and freedom to practice their faith. The photographic portraits show the beauty and vitality of cultural diversity that contributes to all our communities.
 

Critique: A pleasure to simply browse through one page at a time, “Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants” is a unique and extraordinary contribution to our current and on-going national dialogue over immigration. Beautifully illustrated throughout with full color photography, “Finding Home” is a coffee-table style volume (10.1 x 0.6 x 11.4 inches) that will prove to be a welcome and appreciated addition to personal, community, college, and university library Contemporary American Photography collections and would well serve as a template for similar immigration oriented projects.
Editorial Note: Becky Field’s photography has won awards and been recognized by arts organizations and immigrant communities. In 2014 her work was selected for a juried exhibit at the NH Institute of Art. She was a Visiting Fellow at Derryfield School, Manchester, NH. Her photographs have been added to the permanent art collections at the NH Institute of Art and the Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH. Becky studied at the NH Institute of Art, and at photography centers throughout the Northeast. In past work she was a wildlife ecologist and university professor. She has a doctoral degree in ecology and lives in Concord, NH.
-Margaret Lane, Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
 

About the Author

Becky Field’s photography has won awards and been recognized by arts organizations and immigrant communities.  In 2014 her work was selected for a juried exhibit at the NH Institute of Art. She was a Visiting Fellow at Derryfield School, Manchester, NH. Her photographs have been added to the permanent art collections at the NH Institute of Art and the Mariposa Museum, Peterborough, NH.
Her first book, Different Roots, Common Dreams: New Hampshire’s Cultural Diversity, includes photographs of immigrants at home, at work, celebrating traditions and practicing their faith. The introduction is by Maggie Hassan, former NH Governor, foreword by John Isaac, former Chief of United Nations Photo Unit, and six stories by NH immigrants. In her second bo