Jon Lowenstein wins World Press Award

Jon Lowenstein’s amazing work about Chicago’s South Side neighborhood, that recently won second place in World Press Photo competition for daily life photo story.

Here’s what Jon has to say:
The South Side of Chicago’s once proud industrial communities fell onto hard times during the 1970s and 1980s, changing from thriving working class communities to places far removed from local and federal resources, rife with unemployment, poverty, drugs and gang violence. Despite this adversity, many residents have held on and guard deep feelings of affection for their communities. More recently, though, another challenge has reared its head. Residents in each of these communities face the very real possibility of being displaced from the communities they love because they can no longer afford to live there.

See Jon’s winning essay here