Amanda van Scoyoc photographs, 2007-2008

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As a Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow, van Scoyoc spent the 2007-2008 academic year working with the nonprofit organization Roca, which means "rock" in Spanish. Located in Chelsea, a primarily immigrant, low-income neighborhood in Boston, Roca serves Greater Boston communities by helping at-risk youth become self-sufficient, responsible citizens. During her fellowship project, van Scoyoc worked closely with a group of six teenage mothers from a Roca parenting group to design a documentary project that would give them and 24 other young mothers from Roca an opportunity to tell their stories. She found that many these women focused their lives around the well-being of their children and, being familiar with the cycle of poverty, actively sought out opportunities to secure a better future for them. In order to document their stories, van Scoyoc made a formal portrait in each mother's home and conducted a detailed interview; then, each mother took her own photographs; and finally, van Scoyoc and the young women chose the images and mothers' own words that made up this exhibit. The title for van Scoyoc's project is: "Raising Them Right: Young Motherhood in Chelsea, Massachusetts."

Twenty-four 14 x 14" color images on 16 x 21" paper. All photos were made by Amanda van Scoyoc in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2007 and 2008. Photos were taken with a Hasselblad, scanned and printed with an Epson color printer. Captions taken from original texts.

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