Tuesday, June 12, 2012 | By Pete Pin
Invisible Youth: Samantha Box
http://lightbox.time.com/2012/06/12/invisible/#1While enrolled as a student at the International Center of Photography in the fall of 2005, Samantha Box was given an assignment to photograph a community space in New York. In the Hell's Kitchen district of Manhattan, she found Sylvia's Place, the city's only emergency shelter for homeless LGBT youth. More than six years later, she has yet to leave.
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Box believes in slowing down, that to accurately tell a story involving a cacophony of societal and personal layers one must wait patiently for the expression to flicker on someone's face. Only after three to four years of patiently returning to Sylvia's Place — after producing a series of images focused on the issue of homeless LGBT youth designed to, in her words, "hit people in the head to say these people need your attention," — did she fully understand the nuances of her story.
