Emily Schiffer - Carmen, from the "Securing Food in Chicagoland" series

Emily Schiffer - Carmen, from the "Securing Food in Chicagoland" series
  • Title: Securing Food in Chicagoland
  • Dimensions: 20x20 inches
  • Materials: Archival ink jet print
  • Primary Medium: Photography
  • Year Created: 2011
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In June 2011, I began a project about Food Deserts and the urban agriculture movement on Chicago's South Side. Approximately 384,000 Chicagoans live over 1 mile from the nearest supermarket, and have limited access to healthy affordable food in their neighborhoods. Well over 100,000 children live without access to healthy food. Redlining, a prevalent real estate-investment practice in the U.S. from the 1930s to the 1970s, discouraged investment in minority and low income neighborhoods. This was compounded by deindustrialization and the resulting loss of jobs. Large areas in the South Side of Chicago remain to this date, under-developed and neglected. The South Side has experienced a surge in urban farming and community gardening. I seek to photograph the intersection between neglect and self sufficency on Chicago's South Side. Caption: Carmen, a young community gardener, walks through the streets of Aburn Gresham, a neighborhood in the South Side of Chicago.

Emily Schiffer

Emily Schiffer

B. 1980. In 2003 Emily Schiffer received her BA in Fine Art and African American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2005, she founded the My Viewpoint Youth Photography Initiative on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, where she continues to teach and shoot. Awards include: a 2011 Emergency Fund Grant from the Magnum Foundation, the 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Portraiture, the 2010 winner of the PDN Photo Annual Personal Project Category, first prize in the 2010 IPA awards: People/ Children category, the 2009 Inge Morath Award, presented by Magnum Photos and the Inge Morath Foundation, and a 2006-2007 Fulbright Fellowship in Photography. Emily has exhibited her photographs internationally. Publications include: Smithsonian Magazine, PDN, The Raw File, Verve Photo, and BURN Magazine. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Farnsworth Museum, US, The Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan, Foto Baryo, Philippines, and The Center for Fine Art Photography, US. Her recent projects include a documentary examining the impact of migration on family dynamics, as seen through her partner’s family in Cameroon, and a public art project using images from her documentary about the urban agriculture movement within Chicago’s food desert areas (made possible through the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant).

Website: www.emilyschiffer.com

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