THE SOUTH SIDE
2016
In 2016, I photographed Natalie Moore’s book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. The book is partially a memoir of her childhood growing up in the city’s Chatham neighborhood, and partially an examination of the politics and policies that keep Chicago racially segregated.
OLD KING COAL
2016I photographed the Old King Coal Festival in West Frankfort, Illinois for WBEZ’s series on climate change, The Heat of the Moment. My photos accompanied a story by WBEZ Reporter Dan Weissmann about a princess, a miner and a movement to stop the war on coal.
LOUDER THAN A BOMB
2013Louder Than A Bomb is an annual youth poetry competition in Chicago. It has helped raise the profiles of talented young artists including Chance the Rapper and Jamila Woods. In 2013 I produced an hour-long radio special for WBEZ featuring poetry and interviews. I photographed young men and women inside the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center as they delivered heartfelt performances as part of the poetry competition.
ER NURSE
2016For 36 years Gloria Hall has worked as a nurse at Cook County’s Stroger Hospital in one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States. She sees gunshot victims regularly. “I identify with a lot of these families,” she says, “because I’ve been there.” Her first-born son was conceived when Hall was raped as a teenager. Yet she loved him with everything in her soul. When he was 23 years old, he was shot and killed. That trauma has enabled Hall to connect with the many victims of gun violence who she sees come through Stroger Hospital.
