THIS LITTLE GIRL ON CHICAGO’S WEST SIDE WILL HAVE MANY HURDLES TO OVERCOME WHILE GROWING UP. THE SCHOOLS ARE POOR IN HER COMMUNITY, CRIME IS HIGH AND OTHER DAILY PROBLEMS WILL CLOUD HER FUTURE. THE YOUNGSTER IS ONE OF THE NEARLY 1.2 MILLION PEOPLE OF HER RACE WHO MAKE UP OVER ONE THIRD OF CHICAGO'S POPULATION. HER FACE COMBINES WITH MANY BLACKS IN THIS DOCUMENTARY PROJECT WHO ARE LIVING LIFE AS THEY FIND IT AND ARE PROUD OF THEIR HERITAGE

Featured on PDR in the collection John H. White’s Photographs of Black Chicago for DOCUMERICA (1973–74)

It’s hard not to read John H. White’s DOCUMERICA series as a love letter to Black Chicago. Whether capturing protesters or checkers players, concerts or chores, White’s work feels animated by a wonder and curiosity for the great breadth of stories and characters he encountered while exploring his adopted home city — “life”, as he put it in the captions to several of his images, “in all its seasons”.