WE ALL WE GOT: SIGNED BY CARLOS JAVIER ORTIZ

This poster is signed and numbered within an edition of 38. Size: 20 x 24 inches We All We Got explores the consequences and devastation of youth violence in contemporary America between 2006 to 2013. Through a mix of powerful photographs, incisive essays and moving letters from diverse individuals affected by this scourge, Ortiz’s timely body of work brings home the true cost our country’s epidemic of gun violence. Carlos Javier Ortiz’s work provides an avenue for knowing the children and their families whose lives are shattered by bullets. We All We Got is not the end of the conversation about youth violence and society’s complicity, but rather the beginning. The terror in the eyes of grieving children and inconsolable mothers allows the viewer to begin understanding the toll of this reality on the children who live within it. The stories in this exhibition take place in Chicago and Philadelphia. By repeatedly returning to the same neighborhoods over the course of eight years, Ort