New Exhibition "Twin Cities: Held Together" at ICP Photobook Fest

Photo by Xavier Tavera Castro

Magnum Foundation is pleased to announce Twin Cities: Held Together, an exhibition featuring works by Minnesota photographers documenting collective resistance to the recent surge of violent immigration raids in their state, presented at the International Center of Photography during the 2026 Photobook Fest.

These projects were developed through rapid response grants from the Magnum Foundation, featuring works by Drew Arrieta, Jaida Grey Eagle, Tim Evans, Lexi Parra, Joseph Rushmore, Xavier Tavera Castro, and Patience Zalanga.

Location

International Center of Photography Museum
84 Ludlow St | New York, NY 10002

Duration

May 8 – May 10, 2026
MORE INFO HERE

In December 2025, Operation Metro Surge deployed thousands of federal immigration officers to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul region of Minnesota. To date, the operation has resulted in over 4,000 arrests, and the killing of two protestors, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti. At least one person taken by ICE in Minnesota, Victor Manuel Diaz, has since died in ICE custody in Texas. Although Operation Metro Surge officially ended in February 2026, hundreds of immigration agents remain in Minnesota, and violent immigration raids continue within the state and nationwide.

For the Twin Cities, state violence is not new. From centuries of colonial displacement of Indigenous communities, to George Floyd’s murder in 2020 and the racial justice movements that followed—communities in Minnesota are deeply familiar with what it means to endure, resist, and show up for their neighbors.

As they face the presence of ICE on their streets, residents have drawn on legacies of grassroots organizing to mobilize in protest and mutual aid. The seven photographers featured here document these efforts, highlighting the ways that neighbors and strangers alike can come together in collective resistance.

About the exhibition

Drew Arrieta

A printed statement stapled to a utility pole in South Minneapolis during the anti-ICE occupation in March 2026. Like many of the handmade signs and notices that appeared across the Twin Cities, it turns ordinary infrastructure into part of a temporary public archive.

Tim Evans

Isaac, a North Minneapolis resident, holds a homemade neon sign during an anti-ICE protest outside the Minnesota Governor’s residence in St. Paul, Minnesota, where demonstrators called for elected officials to do more to protect vulnerable community members amid Operation Metro Surge on February 24, 2026. “One of the last chants we did there”, Isaac said, “was ‘not going back to the status quo’, but it seems particularly fascist now. Let’s put it explicitly: they’re building the camps. We all know where this is going if we don’t fight back against it.”

Lexi Parra

Claudia and her youngest daughter at home, on February 27, 2026, in Stillwater. After being threatened in her hometown in Mexico, she followed her husband to the US seeking asylum. They settled in Stillwater, but now have been in hiding for two months due to Operation Metro Surge, where federal immigration agents came looking specifically for her husband, although they do not know why.

Jaida Grey Eagle

Organizers stand in front of a tipi at a prayer camp at Mni Owe Sni in Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, on Feb. 11, 2026, during Operation Metro Surge, where Indigenous community members gathered for ceremony and prayer. The camp became a point of contention, with some tribal leaders calling for its removal due to the site’s sacred significance, while organizers sought space to continue prayer.

Joseph Rushmore

A person looks over the memorial site for Alex Pretti, who was killed by Federal Agents in Minneapolis.

Xavier Tavera Castro

During the first week of February many provisional roadblocks and blockades appeared in South Minneapolis. These obstacles were created by the community to complicate the procedures of ICE Metro Surge. The displays of civil disobedience were meant to be a deterrent for federal occupiers. This social movement implemented unconventional methods of protest and included musicians, dancers, singers and chanting with the graphics of protest posters. The result was the community taking care of each other, neighbors taking care of neighbors.

Patience Zalanga

A handwritten note is taped to a street pole near Alex Pretti’s memorial in Minneapolis on March 10, 2026, as community members gathered to pay their respects and leave messages in remembrance.