We all we got: Shining a light on youth violence

Photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz uses his lens to illuminate the great tragedy of urban America

Sarah Eberspacher
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(Image credit: (Carlos Javier Ortiz) From 2006 through 2013, Ortiz met with families who had lost young relatives to violence, and followed teenagers who had never set foot outside the boundaries)

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(Image credit: (Carlos Javier Ortiz)"My students are not inherently oppositional or rebellious people," Chicago high school teacher Luke Anderson writes in an essay for the book. "However, they have interna)

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(Image credit: (Carlos Javier Ortiz) Through all the sadness and anger — and there is plenty of that — Ortiz also found glimmers of hope. The photographer captured a brother's love, a communi)

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(Image credit: (Carlos Javier Ortiz) **We All We Got is on view at the Bronx Documentary Center through March 22, 2015**)

Sarah Eberspacher
Sarah Eberspacher

Sarah Eberspacher is an associate editor at TheWeek.com. She has previously worked as a sports reporter at The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus and The Arizona Republic. She graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

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