Carlos Javier Ortiz - We All We Got

October 10th, 2014 - January 5th, 2015

We All We Got explores the consequences and devastation of youth violence in contemporary America from 2006 to 2013, through a mix of powerful photographs, incisive essays, and moving letters from diverse individuals affected by this perennial scourge.

Carlos Javier Ortiz’s work provides an avenue for knowing these children and their families. This work is not the end of the conversation about youth violence and society’s complicity in it, but rather the beginning. The terror in the eyes of grieving children and inconsolable mothers only allows the viewer to begin to understand the toll that this reality takes on the children who live it.

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Title: The Lost

Video Production | 2014 | 00:35:58 | United States | English | B&W | Two Channel Protection

Description: The names of young people killed in Chicago between 2007 and the spring of 2014. (roughly 95% gunshot, the rest stabbings, arson, “trauma,” assault, and strangling)