Iowan and photographer Andy Kropa opens his exhibition On Immigration: Protest, Work, and Home in a gallery talk and reception at 7 pm, Thursday, April 12, at the Carnegie Library Museum , 1123 Willis Avenue, Perry.  Kropa’s photographs will remain on display until June 1. The gallery talk/reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. Kropa is a freelance photographer in New York , where he shoots news, politics, business and lifestyle images for a number of internationally known publications.  Growing up in Iowa , Kropa pursued his interest in photography as a student in Mount Pleasant High School and Grinnell College .  In 1999, he moved to Chicago to formally study photography at the Institute of Design , earning a master’s degree. Though he has resided in New York since 2001, Kropa returns to Iowa on a regular basis to follow new developments in the state’s social and economic landscape.  In 2003, some of his early images on immigration were shown at the Grinnell College Faulconer Gallery as part of the exhibition Roots of Renewal. His current exhibition, On Immigration, combines images from demonstrations that took place in support of immigration reform in the spring of 2006 with images of daily life among the Hispanic population in West Liberty , Iowa . The exhibition and presentation is supported in part by a grant from the Bock Family Foundation.