by Becky Field | Aug 15, 2015 | Immigration in NH, Meeting Our Neighbors
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by Becky Field | Jul 17, 2015 | Meeting Our Neighbors, Uncategorized
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan has just come to an end. In the last few years, I have been fortunate to learn a thing or two about this holy season through my photography within the Muslim community in New Hampshire. The start of Ramadan varies every year, timed on...
by Becky Field | Jul 14, 2015 | Immigration in NH, Meeting Our Neighbors
New Hampshire is home to several hundred Bosnians who started resettling here as refugees in 1993. This year, on Saturday, July 11, The Bosnian community and their friends, with support from the Association of Bosniaks of New Hampshire, gathered to remember a 20-year...
by Becky Field | Jun 29, 2015 | About the Book
I am often asked why and how I started this project to photograph immigrants and refugees in New Hampshire. The inadequate answer is I really don’t know – it was like the proverbial light bulb going off over my head. Yet I can point to the convergence of...
by Becky Field | Jun 23, 2015 | Meeting Our Neighbors
Earlier this month (6/3/15) the NH Senate passed a resolution (NH SCR 1), requesting the U.S. Government to work to resolve the Bhutanese refugee crisis, repatriate their refugees, and promote human rights in that country. Why, you ask, are NH senators concerned about...
by Becky Field | Mar 18, 2015 | About the Book
I am excited to be writing this – the first blog for the website of my photography book about New Hampshire’s immigrants! Different Roots, Common Dreams: New Hampshire’s Cultural Diversity, will showcase photographs of immigrants (many of them refugees) that I have...
