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“The Anonymous People" is a film that looks at the history of the recovery movement and the anonymity that is central to 12-step programs. But it also looks at the growing movement of people in recovery who are coming out publicly to shed the stigma. Photographer Robert Stolarik documented a screening of the film in Connecticut.
Photographs inside the Harlem housing projects where police arrested 100 people this morning in the largest gang raid in NYC history.
A group of men calling themselves The White House Boys have banded together, unified by their time spent at a notorious Florida juvenile facility where they suffered beatings and other abuses.
After losing his brother to gang violence, during his incarceration William Lopez began to turn his life around through education.
How do you make magic in a place where there is none? In Rhode Island a photography program inside of a youth detention center is asking just that.
Photographer Don Weber spent six years drinking vodka, befriending policemen and waiting endlessly to create and intense series of photographs documenting police interrogations in the Russian Republic and the Ukraine.
A young photographer gains the trust of a teenager living a largely transient lifestyle to document his experience bouncing between friend's houses, bathroom stalls and the local McDonalds.
When I was born, the doctor dictated the way I would live the rest of my life simply by proclaiming “It’s a girl” to my excited and tired parents. Those four words would determine which pronouns people addressed me by, and the social standards I would be expected to live up to – until 16 years later when I would come out to friends and some of my family as trans non-binary.
Christopher Street and the piers in the West Village in New York City still remain a refuge for gay and trans teens, even as their presence becomes more incongruous as the piers have been converted into a gentrified wonderland. On a recent evening, photographer Robert Stolarik visited and documented this safe haven.
Today on Bokeh, photos taken by youth inmates in New Mexico with the Fresh Eyes Project. Is the system’s failure to help them improve their outcomes evident in the way they document their surroundings?