CPOY 64 Documentary Gold: Hunters Point, 'We Out Here'
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.
Caption
Slide 2 of 12
September 13, 2007
With the PG&E power plant in the background, from left, Terry Phillips, Jusuw a May-Loto, Meritiana Loto and Justice Phillips relax on their porch on Harbor Row in Hunters Point. Residents successfully lobbied to shut down the pollution power plant in 2005, the single largest stationary source of air pollution in the city at the time.
Alex Welsh / San Fransisco State University
Location
Hunters Point
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