Photo Exhibit Featuring OSI Fellow Examines Youth Violence

"Hijos del Destino: Images of Youth Violence in the Americas" features the work of OSI Individual Project Fellow Donna DeCesare, an award-winning photographer and professor of journalism at the University of Texas in Austin. The photography exhibition features 29 images, presenting viewers with personalized accounts of youths’ lives that have been affected by war, political and economic instability, and violence. DeCesare explores the stigmas and stereotypes faced by transnational youth gangs, as varying circumstances transport these youths between Latin America and the United States.

The exhibition takes place February 28 - March 30, 2006, at the following location:

Pitzer College’s Nichols Gallery
1050 North Mills Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711

Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–4 p.m., monday through friday.