Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: RODRÍGUEZ, Joseph
Event Date: 1999
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 11 x 14 inches; 27.94 x 35.56 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.292273

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, sticker: Minneapolis, MN (1999) 5 of 5 / Lachia Jones, 22 grew up on Chicago’s South Side. She had / problems with her family, her mother was a drug addict and / she lives with her grandparents. She moved to Minneapolis to / find her aunt and ended up in a shelter with her 4 children. / “In Chicago they don’t have the programs to help you like.; sticker: XSO07RODR0005 01 / [copyright symbol] 2001 Joseph Rodriguez / Black Star (212)679-3288 / [bar code]; attached inscription, typed: Left: Lachia Jones, 22, grew up on Chicago’s South Side. She had problems with her family, her mother was a drug / addict, and she lived with her grandparents. When she couldn’t stay with them any longer, she decided to go to / Minneapolis to find her aunt and cousins. She ended up in a shelter with her four children. She says, “In Chicago they / don’t have the programs to help you like they do in Minneapolis, and its’ easier to get work here.” Lachia is trying to get / her children into school and wants to study to be a nurse’s assistant. She is moving into an apartment that Elim / Transitional Housing helped her to find.; handwritten: TR990315-5 #15Verso: Left: Lachia Jones 22, grew up on Chicago's South Side. She had problems with her family, her mother was a drug addict, and she lived with her grandparents. When she couldn't stay with them any longer, she decided to go to Minneapolis to find her aunt and cousins. She ended up in a shelter with her four children. She says, "In Chicago they don't have the programs to help you like they do in Minneapolis, and it's easier to get work here. "Lachia is trying to get her children into school and wants to study to a nurse's assistant. She is moving into an appartment that Elim Tranisitional Housing helped her to find.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; 1 person; Aerial View; Bag; Chicago; Child safeguarding; Coat; Face; Female; Garbage; Indoors; Landscape; Low angle View; Minneapolis; Panoramic; Person; Social issues; South Side, Chicago; Unknown; Waist-Up Portrait; Waste; Waste container; Young adult
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: SOCIETY / POVERTY
Retouching: N