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 8 of 12
November 28, 2009
Late into the night, a young man shows off his gun in the Alice Griffith 'Double Rock' projects in Hunters Point. When Lennar redevelops the housing projects in 2011, the San Francisco Housing Authority will be quick to evict entire families for a youth's gun possession in a bid to clean up the image of the neighborhood.
Alex Welsh / San Fransisco State University
Location
Hunters Point
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