Michael Perez

Michael Perez

The photograph I took was of the Tufts Behavioral Health Facility in South Boston. I went into Southie looking at neighborhood dress indicators, which I saw as simple and affordable casual street/sports attire. It fulfilled the stereotype of the unruly street kids I had imagined from my time living in NYC and living near rougher neighborhoods like Newburgh, NY. I related this type of dress and the presence of a lot of roaming youth as a sign that their community was poor and that poor communities are often lacking in a good education. An institution like this one that's photographed, shows that youth do have problems in the neighborhood and perhaps are not behaving well in school thus performing under good standards. Boston Research Map confirmed that Southie has the highest category rate of high school dropouts.