"They did a wonderful job representing themselves," he says. "Clearly, a lot of the kids are talented."
For the writing component of the project, students reflected on the work in an artist's statement. In one photograph, a gardener is seen pushing a lawn mower across the front yard of a grand house. Christian Sanders, a 13-year-old photographer, writes, "The picture shows unfairness and kind of humiliation because of how the man cutting the grass has to work for rich people even though he is poor and probably uneducated." However, Sanders says he didn't consider the person in the photograph when he took it -- he was provoked by his familiarity with the house that he often passed.
