Ike Wood 2026 Commended
Outside the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey, two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents stand by as protesters gather to voice concerns over reported conditions inside the facility on May 28, 2026.
Federal agents march into a crowd of protesters spraying chemical irritants at the demonstrators out front of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey as they clear a path for federal vehicles to exit the facility on May 26, 2026.
A family waits for their father to be released from the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey on May 28, 2026.
ERO agents chase and detain a U.S. citizen in Newark, New Jersey on May 26, 2026.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pushes a protester beneath a moving 18-wheel tractor-trailer, damaging the protester’s leg, outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on May 29, 2026.
Teargas fills the summer air after a police riot begins outside of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey on May 29, 2026.
The Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and the neighboring Ted Weiss Federal Building together house more than seven floors of immigration courtrooms, a labyrinth that can overwhelm immigrants with limited English proficiency as they search for the right room on the right floor at the right time on Nov. 13, 2025.
A father and his family search for their courtroom ahead of an immigration check-in appointment on the 12th floor of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York on March 10, 2026.
A priest prays in the dim hallway on the 12th floor of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York on Nov. 13, 2025, as federal agents laugh and heckle him while he asks them to reconsider their profession. One federal agent, who was asked to pray with the visiting priests, responds, “God lost sight of us a long time ago.”
A family appears for an immigration check-in hearing as ICE agents wait outside the waiting room on the 14th floor of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York on March 10, 2026.
A Haitian man is detained by ICE agents after his immigration check-in at 26 Federal Plaza in New York on March 11, 2026.
A detainee fixes a cutout heart to a window and chants with protesters chanting, “Si se puede,” on the outside of the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey on May 28, 2026.
About the work
BLOOD + ICE is a documentary photography project exploring the violence of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, from the streets to the inside of courtrooms. The project seeks to create a snapshot of the zeitgeist of the United States’ immigration crackdown as tensions, friction, and violence continue to increase across the country.
About the Photographer
Ike Wood is a visual journalist from Syracuse, New York attending Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications where he studies documentary cinematography.