Recent Work — Elise Swain

The Rev. Kaji Dousa looks out along Park Avenue as the sun sets on the Park Avenue Christian Church in New York City on Jan. 19, 2022.

Light pours in through stained glass across the Rev. Kaji Dousa’s hands in prayer on Jan 19, 2022.

The Rev. Kaji Dousa poses for a portrait inside the Park Avenue Christian Church, where she is senior pastor, in New York City on Jan. 19, 2022.

Dousa points to a page in her lawsuit against DHS, ICE, and CBP, which states that her SENTRI, the CBP program for expedited processing at border crossings, was “revoked” in New York City on Jan. 19, 2022.

Tracy McCarter photographed in the backyard of her home in New York on May 2, 2021.

Tracy McCarter shows the open wound beneath a Band-Aid caused by her pretrial electric monitoring system device on May 2, 2021.

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Tracy McCarter pets Snuffles, her 10-year-old dog.

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Angie Fox outside her home on Jan. 14, 2023, in The Villages, Fla. © Elise Swain/The Intercept

Residents enjoy an outdoor street fair at Lake Sumter Landing in The Villages on Jan. 14, 2023.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talks with supporters after a speech in Union Square in New York City.

The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, as seen through reflective glass on July 16, 2019.

Messages of support remain on the wall in view of those incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on July 16, 2019.

Anti-war activist Carmen Trotta, a member of the Kings Bay Plowshares Seven, photographed at Mary House in New York City on Nov. 14, 2020.