Shooting back

Fülszöveg

plight of the homeless comes
black-and-white photographs
taken by homeless children in Washington, D.C. Founded
in 1989 by photographer
Jim Hubbard, Shooting Back,---- Inc., is an education and
media center that brings together volunteer photographers and homeless and other at-risk children. This vital program gives the children the basic skills needed to convey their vision of the world through the medium of photography.
The astounding photographs and accompanying comments by children in this book will inform those concerned about the consequences of poverty and homelessness, while inspiring everyone with their testament to the endurance and innate creativity of the human spirit.
CHRONICLE BOCKS • SAN FRANCISCO

In the early 1980s, while a staff photographer for UPI in Washington, D.C., Jim Hubbard began documenting the lives of the homeless. Over time, he found that whenever he took pictures of the families the children wanted to hold and look through his camera. It... Tovább

Fülszöveg

plight of the homeless comes
black-and-white photographs
taken by homeless children in Washington, D.C. Founded
in 1989 by photographer
Jim Hubbard, Shooting Back,---- Inc., is an education and
media center that brings together volunteer photographers and homeless and other at-risk children. This vital program gives the children the basic skills needed to convey their vision of the world through the medium of photography.
The astounding photographs and accompanying comments by children in this book will inform those concerned about the consequences of poverty and homelessness, while inspiring everyone with their testament to the endurance and innate creativity of the human spirit.
CHRONICLE BOCKS • SAN FRANCISCO

In the early 1980s, while a staff photographer for UPI in Washington, D.C., Jim Hubbard began documenting the lives of the homeless. Over time, he found that whenever he took pictures of the families the children wanted to hold and look through his camera. It was this innocent curiosity and enthusiasm that inspired Hubbard to establish a program that would enable the homeless children to learn photographic skills and document their world. The subsequent education and media center was called Shooting Back, Inc., a name coined from a spontaneous comment by one of the young participants in the program: when asked why he was photographing his own world, the homeless child responded, "I'm shooting back."
Both revealing and emotionally stirring, the poignant, black-and-white photographs taken by these children provide a compelling look into a bleak yet hope-filled existence.
A photojournalist since the mid-1960s, Jim Hubbard has been a staff photographer for The Detroit News and United Press International (UPI) and has also contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Newsweek, and Life magazine among others. Hubbard's ten-year chronicle of the nation's homeless has just been published in a book titled American Refugees, and a series of pictures from the book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986. Hubbard holds master's degrees in Divinity and Third World Development. He splits his time between his Shooting Back sites in Washington, D.C. and Minneapolis. An exhibit of the children's work is currently on national tour with The Children's Museum of Denver.
Robert Coles is Professor of Psychiatric and Medical Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fifty books, including his most recent work, The Spiritual Life of Children.
All royalties from the book go to Shooting Back, Inc.
Jim Hubbard helps a homeless child in Washington, D.C., 1989 Vissza