[Photos] Capturing Captivity From the Inside
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If you give an incarcerated kid a camera, this is what they see.
[PHOTOS] Still I Ride: A Young Photographer Documents Her Daily Commute
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Every school day, Kymeira Stewart commutes two hours to school — four hours round trip. Recently, Kymeira brought her camera along with her, documenting the journey that marks the beginning and end of her weekdays. The raw, gritty photos show the transition from the softness of sunrise to the grind of buses and city hustle.
Mapping [beautiful, ugly, scary, safe and unsafe] in Photos
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Beautiful. Ugly. Scary. Safe. Unsafe. Words that describe places you go, or try to avoid. Adjectives to map your neighborhood by—which is just what young people living in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego did recently with the AjA project.
[Photos] Young Seattlelites See Their City in Pixels
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There is a pervasive nostalgia across this gorgeous group of photographs created by young Seattleites with Youth In Focus. They harken back to a slower time in the city’s history, before the shiny new skyline. There is an air of searching about them – as if the young artists were seeking out places they visited as children, now torn down to make way for new buildings and industry.
[Photos] I’m Done When I Say I’m Done and I’m Done
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Today on Bokeh, JJIE's arts blog of youth culture and justice, photos and and interview with C.I., age 17, in Johnson County Juvenile Detention, Olathe, Kan. who says he hasn't received his medication and will be in detention for 23 more days.
[Photos] We are a Diverse and Colorful Portland
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One Portland-based arts organization is working with local youth to create striking portraits of the diverse families who call Portland home. The resulting photographs are intimate and stunning, painting a picture of Portland that is revealing and expressive.
[Photos] They Didn’t Believe Me
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"My parents keep on turning me in here. They call the drug dogs. I told them I didn’t have anything at the house but they didn’t believe me. They may be afraid I am poisoning my little brother or sister." This morning on Bokeh, a 17-year-old in Johnson County Juvenile Detention in rural Kansas.
[PHOTOS] One Photographer’s Long Witnessing of Stop and Frisk
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Gritty photos from time Robert Stolarik spent cataloguing the controversial practice of stop and frisk in New York City.
I Started Coming In When I Was 11
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[Photos] Today on Bokeh: "The state took me away from my Mom when I was 10. She was smoking heavily. I was smoking with my Mom when I was 5 ... When she had me she was 15— my age probably. She was 14 when she got pregnant with me."
[Photos] In Atlanta, an Exploration of the New Family Normal
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Dani Planer is a young photographer based in the heart of the South’s biggest, bravest city. Her latest series, featured today on Bokeh, documents six different Atlanta families. Like the population of the city they live in, the families are ethnically and structurally complex, diverse in their backgrounds and make up. Yet each stunning photograph relays a common familial bond that extends beyond the confines of race and culture.