Philip Cheung has covered the Russian invasion of Ukraine and last year’s fires in Los Angeles, where he lives. He also photographed the massive street protests that emerged in response to the surge of ICE agents in Los Angeles last June. In Minneapolis, he has captured local residents’ evolving resistance to the immigration agents in their midst. Following federal agents’ movements through the city and into Saint Paul and Maple Grove, Cheung has also watched the federal response evolve. At times, he told me, federal agents seemed to welcome photographic attention, as on a day when Gregory Bovino, then the commander-at-large of Customs and Border Patrol, who has since been ousted and transferred out of state, effectively led reporters and local observers on a daylong tour of the city, with stops for active confrontation along the way.
