Emily Mills is an Ypsi-based artist. Her street and documentary photography highlights people’s lived experiences and the systems shaping their lives.

“If you take to the streets in protest, link hands with whomever is beside you.”

—Lisa Suhair Majaj, from “Guidelines”

These are dark times—marked by authoritarianism, upheaval, and the feeling that the world is coming apart. But darkness is not the whole story. These photos capture the story of finding each other and freeing us.