CPOY 77 Documentary Photographic Project Gold: Absence
A long-form narrative picture story or photographic essay that may span multiple years and portrays important contemporary concerns or social issues. To encourage long-term projects, images from previous years' work may be included, provided none of them have previously won a CPOY award. Half of the photographs in the entry must have been taken between August 23, 2021 and August 22, 2022.
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Slide 11 of 12
February 12, 2022
Friends of Trent Davis hang out at his shrine on Mohawk St. in Rochester, N.Y., on Feb. 12, 2022. Davis was shot at the site of the shrine in 2017 and succumbed to his injuries in 2020. According to new research from the Cornell ILR Buffalo Co-Lab focusing on the correlation between eviction filings and crime rates found that the two “are related in ways that cannot be explained by chance alone; but surface-level patterns in these variables are products of deeper structural variables, such as poverty and inequality.”
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