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On The Road Again: Photo Students Search For The "Real" Nebraska, Bruce Thorson
On The Road Again: Photo Students Search For The "Real" Nebraska, Bruce Thorson
College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Student Media
"Migrant Mother," a photograph by Dorothea Lange that showed a mother struggling to survive with her three children in a lean-to in a migrant camp, became the iconic picture that symbolized the Great Depression in the 1930s. Today, our nation's economy has fallen to a historic level not seen since that traumatic period. Financial and housing markets and automakers have crumbled; unemployment has soared. This national recession has touched every American, including those who live in Nebraska.
The objective of this project is to produce photographs, audio slideshows and video that document how this economic upheaval has affected Nebraskans. We …