Chicago 2025

As part of our ongoing collaboration with camera giants, Leica, our students from the 2022 Los Angeles project have already had their amazing work exhibited in The US and Europe and have subsequently been trained as teachers themselves.

As well as overseeing new groups of students in South Central Los Angeles, the young photographers have now stepped out of their domestic comfort zone and been responsible for running projects in Chicago, notably in the southern areas of the city where gang violence is an everyday occurrence. This venture is part of our exciting, ongoing collaboration with LA’s “From The Streets To The Set” and Chicago’s “Little Village Boxing and Community Center”.

The Chicago cohort learned photographic techniques from their LA contemporaries in a variety of locations across the Windy City, from Millennium Park at The Loop to The National Museum of Mexican Art, from The Shameless House to Hampton House (home of The Black Panthers), from the streets of Cicero to the electric atmosphere of a downtown boxing gym and, of course, Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears.

All these opportunities enabled the photographers to capture images and depict stories from their hometown Chicago landscape.