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CPOY 78 Portfolio Award of Excellence: Michael Blackshire

A body of work that demonstrates versatility, expertise and depth and showcases a photographer's vision.

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The Day After
August 30, 2023
On a cold Halloween night in West Garfield Park on Chicago’s Westside is a vigil for a women who passed away from cancer. Children as young as 9 months and adults as old as 60 celebrate her life when a drive by shooting in the middle of the night aimlessly shoots anyone at the vigil using guns known as switches. “I remember just hearing bullets flying, people screaming. My cousin had to toss her baby on a bush and duck down to make sure he wouldn’t be shot,” Cherice Patterson said. The day after a neighborhood and family lives would never be the same. Leaving 14 people in the hospital. What followed was the recovery process, trauma, and the loss of a family member. As the local news came and went, the family were just in the beginning process of this new life after tragedy.
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