{"product_id":"agency-resilience-witnessing-the-aftermath-of-the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1","title":"Agency \u0026 Resilience: Witnessing the Aftermath of the ICE shootings in Minneapolis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAgency \u0026amp; Resilience\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a work of documentary photojournalism chronicling the ICE shootings in Minneapolis and the weeks of community response that followed on the city's streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn January 7, 2026, Renée Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge, the federal immigration enforcement operation that had descended on the Twin Cities. Seventeen days later, on January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and 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. 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 either death pass unwitnessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrench was there with his camera. Across 168 pages of unflinching photographs, Agency \u0026amp; Resilience 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: Susan Sontag, who questioned whether images of suffering numb us or move us, and Susie Linfield, who argued in The Cruel Radiance that photographs of political violence can be acts of solidarity rather than exploitation. Agency \u0026amp; Resilience takes up their debate in practice, asking what it means to watch, to record, and to act when the people killed were neighbors, one of them shot 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 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\n\u003cli\u003eDocumentary photography from months of vigils, marches, and memorials in Minneapolis, from the January 7 shooting through the March 6 benefit concert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA visual record of community response to Operation Metro Surge and federal immigration enforcement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn engagement with the ethics of witnessing, in the tradition of Sontag and Linfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA portrait of a city, its neighborhoods, its winters, its people, in a moment of reckoning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\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":67613815537981,"sku":null,"price":59.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/files\/9798234104304ita_42c94768-b7b4-4aae-8bd7-431a7aa277db.jpg?v=1790872752","url":"https:\/\/itascabooks.com\/products\/agency-resilience-witnessing-the-aftermath-of-the-ice-shootings-in-minneapolis-1","provider":"Itasca Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}