{"product_id":"agency-resilience-witnessing-the-aftermath-of-the-alex-pretti-shooting","title":"Agency \u0026 Resilience: Witnessing the Aftermath of the Alex Pretti Shooting","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgency \u0026amp; Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a work of documentary photojournalism chronicling the aftermath of the Alex Pretti shooting and the 74 days of community response that followed on the streets of Minneapolis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 24, 2026, Alex Pretti — a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a lawful gun owner with no criminal history — was shot by federal agents on Nicollet Avenue while coming to the aid of a bystander who had been pushed to the ground during an immigration enforcement operation. What happened next became one of the most sustained expressions of civic grief and resistance in the city's history. Vigils. Marches. Memorials that grew and were rebuilt. Neighbors who kept showing up, week after week, refusing to let the moment pass unwitnessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrench was there with his camera. Across 164 pages of unflinching photographs, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgency \u0026amp; Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e documents not a single event but a duration — the way a community metabolizes loss, organizes anger into purpose, and insists on being seen. These are images of candlelight and cardboard signs, of faces in cold Minnesota air, of the ordinary people who make up an extraordinary response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is framed at the intersection of two formidable thinkers on photography: \u003cb\u003eSusan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e, who questioned whether images of suffering numb us or move us, and \u003cb\u003eSusie Linfield\u003c\/b\u003e, who argued in \u003ci\u003eThe Cruel Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e that photographs of political violence can be acts of solidarity rather than exploitation. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgency \u0026amp; Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e takes up their debate in practice — asking what it means to watch, to record, and to act when a man was killed for the simple decency of helping someone in front of him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Minneapolis-based photojournalist and documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on PBS, Amazon Prime, and Apple TV and in Gannett publications including USA Today, Trench brings nearly a decade of protest photography — tens of thousands of frames made since 2017 — to this account of his own city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders of this book will find:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eDocumentary photography from 74 days of vigils, marches, and memorials in Minneapolis\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA visual record of community response to federal immigration enforcement\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eAn engagement with the ethics of witnessing, in the tradition of Sontag and Linfield\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eA portrait of a city — its neighborhoods, its winters, its people — in a moment of reckoning\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgency \u0026amp; Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is for readers of photobooks and photojournalism, for those who follow questions of civil liberties and immigration policy, and for anyone who believes that paying attention is a form of action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fahrenheit, inc.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51960458051901,"sku":null,"price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798234104304ita.jpg?v=1783714246","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/agency-resilience-witnessing-the-aftermath-of-the-alex-pretti-shooting","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}