The Economic Hardship Reporting Project is thrilled to partner with Magnum Photographer Sabiha Cimen and the Los Angeles County Library to host a community-based workshop at the San Fernando County Library on Saturday, October 18, 2025.

Enjoy stories about families that come to America and explore how they preserve their traditions. The program will feature photos from Sabiha Cimen’s book, Hafiz, and will include an activity inviting families to decorate photo albums to take home.

Sabiha Çimen, born in Istanbul, brings her own immigrant perspective to photo essays showcasing caregiving and food culture among Los Angeles’ immigrant communities. In intimate, multi-layered portraits of Korean nurses and Middle Eastern Muslim immigrants in Los Angeles, we see the quiet labor that goes into caregiving and feeding the community, centering those who play critical roles in the nourishment of others yet often remain unseen. Through intimate photography and personal interviews, Çimen explores not only these immigrants’ work, but how they live, what they carry, and how they preserve their dignity in the face of structural invisibility.

Register here.