Topic: Detroit

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Photo Essay

Happy 70th Birthday, Janis Joplin: Photos of the Young Blues Star

Janis Joplin’s 70th birthday would have been on Saturday. In tribute, LightBox presents a rare look into the young blues singer’s life by photographer Elliott Landy.

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Camilo José Vergara
Photo Essay

Twin Towers and the Metropolis: 1970-2011

Photographer Camilo José Vergara writes for LightBox about his photographs of the World Trade Center taken over the past 41 years. Within his images, the Towers’ absence speaks perhaps even more powerfully than their presence.

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Corine Vermeulen
Photo Essay

Teen Moms in Detroit: Fighting to Save the School that Saved Them

The Catherine Ferguson Academy, part urban farm, part college prep, has horses grazing along the former running track, hay growing in empty lots and an apple orchard with hens running through it, all in the heart of burned-out Detroit. In a city that has a graduation rate of 62%, the academy, part of the Detroit Public Schools system, grants diplomas to 95% of their students—all pregnant teens or young mothers—and every one of them has a college acceptance letter in her back pocket.

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Afghanistan
Closeup

Closeup: Best Pictures of the Week, April 1 – April 8

This week Afghanistan protestors react to a U.S. pastor’s burning of the Quran, the Libyan conflict continues, and UN peacekeepers provide security in Ivory Coast.

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