Halloween Arsons in Detroit

Detroit fire fighters fight a two-story vacant dwelling fire fully engulfed in flames at 5902 Ivanhoe on Detroit’s near-west side Halloween Night just after 10 p.m. Another large vacant-dwelling fire was started about an hour prior a couple blocks from Ivanhoe and Ironwood was also ruled suspicious. (Tanya Moutzalias/Special to the Detroit News)

 

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Diptych Friday: unconventional youth

Mo holds his favorite book “Go Ask Alice”, a book about youth and addiction. “I try to read an hour a day cause it gets you out of your head,” said Mo. He was once a drug addict himself, the oldest and black sheep of his family, Mo got into drugs at a young age and was kicked out of his home at 15. He is now living in a tent community on the outskirts of Ann Arbor, MI.

JP is a young tattoo artisit leaving in a squatting community in Highland Park, MI.

11th annual Tour De Troit: gallery special to the Detroit News (freelance)

see the full gallery here

Film stills

“Wind: Mid-Michigan’s New Energy” was a group-thesis multimedia project that focused on the emerging Wind Turbine development in Gratiot County.

Trying to show wind energy in a different light proved to be very difficult. We stumbled across a family trying to fly a kite in their yard. Their home was surrounded by the wind turbines.

Here are a couple films stills and images from that evening of feature hunting:

 

 

Golden Gate restoration project, Highland Park / #occupydetroit

Dylan just moved to Highland Park this past fall from NYC.

 

Cortez, volunteer/ninja/go--getter

JB, artist and resident of the Occupy Detroit house

new windows

 

the last supper

 

 

lotto tickets were everywhere

 

i spy with my little eyes, a peacock

 

summer sailing with the photojrn kids

sean proctor & libby march

film from over the summer when some of the photojournalism kids & i went sailing on Kent Miller’s boat in the Saginaw bay.

sara winkler

 

beth walter

 

libby march

 

kent miller

 

sean proctor

NYC: street photography, Central Park (part one)

Molly May climbs a tall rock in Central Park. She is bouldering, free climbing without any ropes. May spent the afternoon with her brother, Micah May who has been climbing for over a decade.

A friendly game of soccer in a leaf-covered field in Central Park, Nov. 19.

Break dancers impress a crowd of onlookers in Columbus Circle, outside of Central Park.

A Salvation Army worker shakes his bells and booty at Columbus Circle outside of Central Park, Nov. 18.