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Client: Propublica
Publish Date: Story Killed

Editorial illustrations exploring the profound tension between families seeking help and the systems meant to protect them. Commissioned for an investigative piece on families who sought psychiatric care for their children, only to face intervention from Child Protective Services.

These conceptual portraits capture the surveillance, vulnerability, and betrayal experienced by parents trying to do right by their children—visualizing the invisible weight of being watched by the very authorities meant to provide support. The series examines how the pursuit of help can become a trap, and how protective systems can transform into sources of fear.

Each illustration balances the intimate scale of family crisis with the looming presence of institutional power, creating visual metaphors for this complex intersection of care and control.

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