I visited Mechanicville, a neighborhood I’ve been warned about as “bad.” No coincidence, the event I was going to cover was a “Stop the Violence Rally,” at the local gym and community center. The event consisted of motivational speakers, loud music and horses for the kids. I went in to the assignment happy that I wasn’t going to have to take pictures of cute kids doing things. Is that so wrong? But fate has different plans, and after shooting the opening pleasantries, it would be cute kids doing things once again. Maybe I shouldn’t look at it as just, “cute kids doing things once again,” but rather, how our youngest generation reacts to something that was once common and familiar to life here in Louisiana.
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I visited Mechanicville, a neighborhood I’ve been warned about as “bad.” No coincidence, the event I was going to cover was a “Stop the Violence Rally,” at the local gym and community center.

The event consisted of motivational speakers, loud music and horses for the kids. I went in to the assignment happy that I wasn’t going to have to take pictures of cute kids doing things. Is that so wrong? But fate has different plans, and after shooting the opening pleasantries, it would be cute kids doing things once again.

Maybe I shouldn’t look at it as just, “cute kids doing things once again,” but rather, how our youngest generation reacts to something that was once common and familiar to life here in Louisiana.

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