Stephen Shames, children & youth

Best known for his work on the Black Panthers, Stephen Shames spent the 1970s and 80s photographing children and youth anywhere from Vancouver to Chicago to New York. The Parisian Esther Woerdehoff Gallery presents a stunning retrospective of Shames’s work.

Stephen Shames, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: young teenagers wrestle in the grass at a park, 1975 © Stephen Shames
Looking at Stephen Shames’s photos is like traveling back in time. Smiles, hugs, laughter, tears send the viewer on a...

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