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CPOY 64 Documentary Award of Excellence: Fourteen

A long-form photographic essay or extended narrative story which portrays important contemporary concerns or social issues. To encourage long-term projects, images from previous year's work may be included, provided none of them have previously won a CPOY award.

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Slide 11 of 12
April 26, 2009
Scotty runs with a rough crowd and plays a game he calls, “Hustling,” to make extra spending money. How it works is he has a network of individuals who contact him through Jamies phone for drugs. He gives them Jamie’s number so that the police cannot trace it back to him, they tell him what they want and he gets it and charges twice as much as what its worth. Jamie and Scotty sit side by side on the living room couch after he got into an intense fight with Jamie’s sister after he took advantage of her with one of his shady deals. “If I could do it over again and not pick him as the baby’s dad then sometimes I don’t think I want him to be,” said Jamie. “Scotty he’s crazy sometimes and I don’t know how he’s going to act with the baby because he’s not that mature. “
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