Jeff Cagle
i am a freelance documentary and editorial photographer living in the chicago suburbs.
my portfolio is at jeffcagle.com.
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I spent some time at East Aurora High School yesterday shadowing students shadowing each other as part of a youth exchange program between East and West Aurora High Schools. Based on that sentence alone, you can probably imagine it was hard to caption these images.
The program was put together dispel misconceptions students have of each other. East students think West is full of rich snobs, and West students think East is full of gang-bangers and you’ll get shot if you enter (something that every parent in Naperville also tells their kid). I only shot at East, but wanted to make sure I got a couple shots of West students looking uneasy, but a bunch more of happy, engaged faces once they realized the rumors weren’t true. It was a good story if you want to read it.
