Yesterday, WNYC’s Leonard Lopate spoke to Green Card Stories author and immigration lawyer Stephen Yale-Loehr and GCS profilees Randolph Sealey (above) and Angela Andrade about the current state of immigration in America and where immigration policy is headed in the 21st century. Randolph Sealey and Angela Andrade’s fascinating stories illustrate the personal side of immigration policy and makes this show illuminating and lively. Listen here.

Today marks the official launch of Green Card Stories! Through dynamic narratives and intimate portraits, this book examines the lives of fifty recent immigrants to the U.S., revealing the breadth and diversity of the immigrant experience. We hope this book will inspire dialogue about the current state of our country’s immigration law, and generate ideas as to how we can improve the system.

Congratulations to Laura Danielson, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Saundra Amrhein, and Ariana Lindquist for realizing this amazing project.

Help us celebrate the launch of Green Card Stories! Check out this list of events in the NYC area.

Photo-eye reviews Rania Matar’s new portfolio, La Femme-Enfant, a work that deals again with times of transition in a girl’s life. Where A Girl and Her Room captures teenage girls and the spaces that display their unique identities, this portfolio portrays a group of younger girls, contemplating the transitional age between childhood and adulthood.

As Photo-eye writes, “Some are vulnerable, others defiant, yet all portray the uniqueness of their age, the in between years, the age of transition from child to young adult.”

Today marks the two year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, the devastation of which is still evident. According to the International Organization for Migration, approximately 634,000 people remain living in displacement camps.

For some insight into this issue, head over the La Lettre de la Photographie to read Sara Rosen’s latest review of Wyatt Gallery‘s Tent Life: Haiti, where she writes:

“Gallery’s photographs are a testament to . . . the beauty of the human spirit that glows from within. His photographs show us that despite the worst possible circumstances, the people of Haiti have something so many of us lack: the commitment to family, to community, to rising above. Can’t hold us down, not by the forces of Man nor Nature.

The photographs are at quietly shocking, such beautifully composed images of honor and pride in the face of total devastation.”

Fifty percent of all proceeds from the purchase of the book goes toward one of three charities: The Global Syndicate, Healing Haiti, and J/P HRO.