Photographing the American D.R.E.A.M.

THEIR FACES ARE HIDDEN, THEIR BACKS TO THE VIEWER, but every person in photographer Lupita Murillo Tinnen’s portfolio, “American D.R.E.A.M.,” reveals the identities of undocumented students through body language, and their environments: the rooms in which they live and work.

Tinnen, a Fort Worth native and Texas-based photographer, confronts the recently-rejected Development, Relief & Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act in this series. The title of each portrait gives the student’s major and the age they were when they came to the U.S.:

See more of American D.R.E.A.M. as well as Murillo Tinnen’s other portfolios at her official website.