BILL HEALY
JOURNALISTYOU DIDN’T SEE NOTHIN
2023Twenty-five years ago in Chicago, a little boy was beaten into a coma, just for being Black. Almost overnight, the news stories turned to racial reconciliation and forgiveness.
SOMEBODY
2020When Shapearl Wells’s son Courtney is found outside a Chicago police station with a fatal bullet wound, Shapearl launches an investigation into her son’s murder.
HAMILTON HOUSE
2018Over the past 40 years, retired Chicago homicide detective Gerald Hamilton has taken in more than 70 foster kids at his South Shore home.
16 & RECOVERING
2021A 4-part MTV documentary series about the lives of students attending Northshore Recovery High School, a place where teenagers get help dealing with substance use as they work toward their degrees.
CLOSED SCHOOLS
2013In 2013, the Chicago Board of Education permanently closed 50 public schools, the largest single round of school closings in recent American history. Nearly 12,000 students were displaced, mostly on the city’s South and West Sides. I visited all of the closed school buildings for a documentary photo project. The photos appeared on WBEZ, were featured in the Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times, were exhibited in a solo show at the IPaintMyMind Gallery, and used as part of two documentaries from Kartemquin Films.
