Super Freddie
By Brenna Cukier “Here, that’s Fu Manchu…you know him? And that’s Spock from the Starship Enterprise…just came out of my head. This one I didn’t get to finish…” Two tan and weathered hands flick through a stack of pen drawings on printing paper. “This is our co-worker…she doesn’t work with us any more. This is Wonder […]
Hine Fellows Exhibit at Photoville 2015
This week, 2014-15 Hine Fellows Amanda Berg and Sarah Stacke will be presenting their fellowship work at Photoville in NYC, alongside photographs from former Fellows Noah Hendler, Kate Joyce, Emma Raynes, and Amanda Van Scoyoc. If you’re local, we hope to see you there!
Newspaper Squad
By Amanda Berg My dad tells a story about the scars on his knees. He learned to play baseball on the asphalt lot behind his school. For years he played on that blacktop, with chalk marks for bases and a chain link fence as the boundary. A slide into home meant a bloody knee. When he […]
HineSight, Fellow Natalie Minik’s multimedia website
HineSight: Seven Years of Lewis Hine Fellowships in Boston is a project created by 2013–14 Hine Fellow Natalie Minik. Her five multimedia pieces revisit Hine Fellowship projects from the years the program worked with nonprofits in Boston. In creating the works, Natalie explored the effects of former Hine Fellows’ documentary work on the individuals and families […]
2015-2016 Hine Fellows Announced
We’re excited to announce that Brenna Cukier, Laura Doggett, and Nicholas Pilarski will be the 2015-2016 Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows in New York City. Read more on the CDS Porch blog.
Sarah Stacke featured on John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History
We’re excited to share that an interview with 2014-2015 Hine Fellow Sarah Stacke is featured on photographer and historian John Edwin Mason’s blog: Sarah Stacke: Love from Manenberg
The Vow
By Cameron Zohoori Riqie Wainaina works in the Workforce Development Program at UTEC, spending most of his days in the mattress recycling crew. He travels to a warehouse in Lawrence, MA each day with the rest of the crew, under the supervision of two UTEC staff. There they dismantle and prepare discarded mattresses for recycling, […]
Article by Amanda Van Scoyoc in Contexts Magazine
In news articles about teen pregnancy, we rarely see the faces or hear the voices of young women. How does becoming a young mother affect them? How do they view their lives? What advice would they give to others? I spent a year exploring these questions in Chelsea, a primarily immigrant, low-income neighborhood near Boston, […]