Milk Teeth takes as its starting point a photograph made in 1870 depicting 75 Chinese boys and young men who were trafficked from California to North Adams, Massachusetts, to work as strikebreakers against French Canadian workers. Confined to the factory site under carceral conditions, they remained in North Adams during the decade preceding the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Using archival and original photographs, sculptural works, and an extended fictional text, Tsubota traces the interconnected histories of race, immigration, labor, extraction, and photography.

Where To, From Here brings together 140 photographs drawn from an ongoing series begun in 2023, which now comprises approximately 280 images. Made primarily with Polaroid film, the photographs trace Mohammed’s travels across the United States, documenting people, places, and sites of gathering along the way. The question posed by the title is both geographic