Photographer captures images of immigrants from all nations

In this Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 photo photographer Mark Chester stands for a portrait next to images in his exhibit called The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape -Photographs of New Americans, at the Statehouse, in Boston. Cape Cod-based Chester has produced a collection of photographs of immigrants from all over the world. (AP Photo/Denise Lavoie) (The Associated Press)

In this Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016 photo Teddy Chery, of Medford, Mass., right, pauses to examine an image that forms part of an exhibit by photographer Mark Chester at the Statehouse, in Boston. Cape Cod-based Chester has produced a collection of photographs of immigrants from all over the world called The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape - Photographs of New Americans. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) (The Associated Press)

BOSTON – A photographer has made it his mission to photograph two people from every nation who have settled in Massachusetts.

Mark Chester is well on his way to achieving his goal.

Since 2011, he's photographed people from 185 of the world's 196 countries, all of them immigrants who live in the state and have become naturalized U.S. citizens.

Chester's collection of more than 350 photographs has been exhibited around Massachusetts. He is now in the process of putting them into a book he plans to distribute free to schools and libraries around the state.

He said his project has taken on new meaning since Republican President-elect Donald Trump has said he would build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country.