Overpass
by Toty Antonio Ruggieri
Conversations
Te Quiero Hasta la Luna
Even with her strong will and personality, I love her unconditionally, like no other. I know I could survive without my husband, even though I love him. I know he would also be fine without me. But without my daughter, I would be torn to pieces. I can’t even think about it because my eyes well up with tears. I [...]
Te Quiero Hasta la Luna
At least, I am always amazed at what she picks up. The scary part is that she picks up everything! Good and bad, I see and hear myself in her sometimes and think, “Oh no, do I sound like that?”. I see my little mirror and have to accept that I had some responsibility for molding her.
Te Quiero Hasta la Luna
I took notice of how many parents would take their children with them to places and never talk to them, so the best advice I would give a first time mom is not to take her child for granted in this respect. Children are smart and absorb everything, we already know that, but how young a child learns language and [...]
Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
Te Quiero Hasta la Luna
I taught her sign language and before she could talk, she signed the next word in a song that I would sing her to sleep with. That was my first realization of how smart children are if we pay attention to them and give them the tools.
Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
Te Quiero Hasta la Luna
Before she ever talked, I would show her things and describe them to her. I would point and tell her that the object waving high on the pole was called a flag and what colors it was, and that there were many types and what they represented. Anyone who saw and heard me would have thought I was crazy, [...]
Young Blood: Michigan’s Urban Youth
by Dan Farnum For many recent years the FBI has designated my hometown of Saginaw, Michigan as having the most violent crimes per capita in the country. Flint and Detroit are also frequently listed in the top ten. These photographs investigate the condition of cities and neighborhoods in Michigan after years of economic decomposition. This work documents the people who [...]
Sinews
Mercedes Dorame Gaps exist in memory, history hangs by threads and anxiety about authenticity and value seeps through the cracks. Through my work I seek to regenerate to connective tissue of personal and collective meaning to reconstruct a whole. As part of a Native American tribe from Los Angeles that was once declared extinct by history books, I [...]