...Richard Ross This photo essay and introduction focus on people in California prisons who were sentenced to decades in prison for crimes committed as juveniles. The United States is the only country in the world to sentence juveniles to life in prison. A majority of juveniles sentenced to life serve...

... Photo essay prison-industrial complex landscape photography California state prisons California Men s Colony, San Luis Obispo. josef jacques A Vast Strangeness Prisons invading California T he United States imprisons nearly 2.2 million people; we have the largestincarcerated population...

.... Latino urbanism is remaking California by adapting what already exists. David Butow’s photo essay captures this dynamic in action in California. © 2016 by The Regents of the University of California 2016 Photography photo essay Latino urbanism public spaces James Rojas Leon Whiteson...

...-Muslims. From flip–flops to yoga mats to water bottles to tool boxes, everyday American objects come to inhabit sacred spaces when repurposed, reclaimed for the sake of Shari’a . © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 Photography photo essay Arab enlightenment equality...

...Matt Black This photo essay by Matt Black depicts the often devastating impact of drought on the landscapes and communities of California’s Central Valley. © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 Drought California photo essay Central Valley San Joaquin Valley...

... essay is at odds with the popular conception of California landscapes. But, as the photographer discovered through the project, they are in fact quintessentially Californian. © 2015 by the Regents of the University of California 2015 Mars Curiosity Industrial landscapes photo essay mining...

...Reyna Olaguez New America Media asked young reporters in the Central Valley to capture how the drought has affected their communities in this powerful photo essay. Six photographs are presented here, each paired with thoughts from its subject or photographer. © 2014 by the Regents...

...Dugan Aguilar This photo essay is selection of six photographs of California Indians from Dugan Aguilar’s forthcoming She Sang Me a Good Luck Song (Heyday, 2015). The photographs are a glimpse at modern Indian life over the past three decades, and the blend of old traditions and new. © 2014...

...Rian Dundon A photo essay by Rian Dundon, in response to the question “What’s the matter with San Francisco?” Dundon touches on some of the major broader themes of housing and transportation in an indirect way, while also acknowledging the fact that in some ways nothing is the matter. San Francisco...

...Matt Black Photo essay on California’s twentieth congressional district. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California 2011 Matt Black Cal-20 photo essay migrant labor poverty A man walks past a line of deserted storefronts. McFarland, California. Boom0103.indd 88 16/08/11 3...