Joey stands before the wall of his bedroom, which displays the marks of his punches and a picture of his eight year old daughter, Violet. / Photo by Jessica Dimmock
November, 2004. Charlie, a drug dealer who slept in a hidden space behind a moveable bookcase, counts money from a sale. / Photo by Jessica Dimmock
January, 2005. Rachel stays in the bedroom of Jesse and Mike after her the arrest of her boyfriend, Lucky. / Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Natasha struggles for more than 45 minutes to find a clear vein to shoot up in. / Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
April, 2005. Jesse waits in Joey’s room. It is difficult for residents to maintain meaningful friendships in the environment of the apartment because of the struggle each person must go through to obtain money and/or drugs. / Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
Photo by Jessica Dimmock
The process of creating a documentary often follows its own narrative arc: a filmmaker sets out to create a film, faces a set of successes and failures, and eventually triumphs. For Mayeta Clark, her journey began with a walk on a December day.
After Jose Bolaos, the original “Shy Boy,” was murdered, his youngest brother, Edgar, tattooed a tombstone memorial on his back and began hanging out in gang crash pads. / Apopa, El Salvador, 1995. © Donna De Cesare
Gang members prepare to mix marijuana with cocaine, a drug exclusive to the elite but is now available in the poorest barrios. / San Salvador, El Salvador, 1997. © Donna De Cesare
Near the Modelo Market, local youth initiate a fifteen-year-old into their clique of the Mara Salvatrucha gang. / San Salvador, El Salvador, 1993. © Donna De Cesare
Immigration agents for the Violent Gang Task Force target immigrant youth whom they suspect may be gang-involved for deportation. / Westside, Los Angeles, 1994. © Donna De Cesare
Ventura, California, 1994. Jessica Diaz embraces her mother Carmen and son Carlos at the end of visiting day at the California youth Authority facility where she is serving a sentence for drug related robbery. / Ventura, California, 1994. © Donna De Cesare
A gang member who wishes to leave gang life tries to comfort his children, but he worries about the future because his tattoos make it difficult to find legitimate work. / Guatemala, Guatemala, 2002. © Donna De Cesare
In the course of a semester, Jan Hendrik Hinzel and Valentine Pasquesoone produced a short documentary film, “Bronx Stage”, an idea that stemmed from two simple words: youth and South Bronx. (more…)
Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, photographer and a political analyst. She is currently working on “The Borderlands”, a project that documents stories along India’s borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Burma. (more…)
If you’ve never attended a portfolio review, it can seem daunting. It’s tough to show your work to an editor, let alone a room full of them. Asking for feedback isn’t easy, but the insights you get can be invaluable. So grab our list of portfolio reviews, find one near you and get your work together! Survive your first review with these handy tips. (more…)
