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Saturday, October 26 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
Saint Kate Hotel: Simone Ball Room B
East Side Volume One is a collaborative photographic project with George Washington High School and the far Southeast side community of Chicago. The area's complex history is largely composed of industrial riverways, auto manufacturing plants, and steel mills, often overshadowing the wealth, strength, and resilience of its community and their individual stories. The success of this project is dependent upon maintaining a generous exchange as determined by the students and families in the East Side and Hegewisch neighborhoods. High school students practice and refine visual and written storytelling skills, taking form as photographic books addressing individual themes of importance. As a contribution to their community history, each book is collected with the Hegewisch Public Library. As photographer, I respond with images reflecting the powerful presence exuded by the students' concern for their changing neighborhood, alongside their family histories. Embodying the theme of community, collaborations, and collectives, this panel discussion actively includes social worker, Sydney Hammuck, photographer, Jaclyn Silverman, and students, Osmara Jaquez, Danielle Dynes, and Amber Chavez, to address the valuable role of photography in expanding their own narrative, and their neighborhood history, as we become interchangeable subjects and authors in East Side Volume One. This panel will create an open dialogue around initiating relationships, assimilating into community, personal family histories, social and environmental issues of industrial landscapes, while testifying to lived experiences, questioning the presence and future of both an area and its residents.
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Amber Chavez
Danielle Dynes
Jaclyn Silverman
Osmara Jaquez
Sydney Hammuck
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