Michelle L Elmore YA Heard Me

by Michelle L Elmore

I started visiting New Orleans barbershops on Friday afternoons. Many of the subjects in my monograph "Ya Heard Me" were Gangsta' Rap artists. I began documenting their day-to-day lifestyles in the neighborhoods they were from. In the two years leading up to Hurricane Katrina, I shot thousands of photographs of these young people. I realized the moniker "soldiers" by which they refer to themselves was not an affectation. The average life expectancy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0998748412
• ISBN13: 9780998748412
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Artvoices Art Books
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 12.1" x 9.1"