Inherit America

Inherit America is not about crisis—it’s about continuity. Carlos Javier Ortiz traces the quiet violence of systemic inequity, not through breaking news, but through the slow erosion of safety, opportunity, and visibility. With elegance and restraint, his images resist spectacle, grounded in time, trust, and relationship. Ortiz returns again and again, photographing daily life, recovery, and endurance. The work is art as advocacy—ethical, reciprocal, and rooted in place—inviting viewers to stay with the tension of what America is, and what we shape it to become. Laura Husar Garcia, curator

  • People opposing Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law gather in Phoenix, July 28, 2010.

  • Prayer for migrants

  • An estimated 400,000 protesters march through Chicago during the “Day Without an Immigrant” rally supporting undocumented immigrants, May 1, 2006.

  • Anti-war demonstrators march down Michigan Avenue in Chicago on March 20, 2007, marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

  • A television monitor displays footage from a PBS Frontline program about the Iraq wa

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