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Issue #1
BLACK TEENS: ANOTHER IMAGE, is a series of 16x20 black and white silver gelatin prints, accompanied by text. In 1987, 32 African American teenagers living throughout the Bay Area were photographed and interviewed by photographer and social activist, H. Lenn Keller about issues that were affecting their lives.

Issue #2
GENDER WARRIORS,
is a work in progress by photographer and social activist, H. Lenn Keller, that is looking at the cross-sections of race and gender identity. It is interrogating gender identity as a site of oppression, and examining it as a social construction and a performance, based on a male-female sexual binary, and it's accompanying rigid gender roles within a patriarchal system. It is also looking at how gender has been racialized. This work poses the questions; who determines what is appropriate gender presentation, what makes them appropriate, why is it necessary to conform to these prescribed presentations, who and what do these "appropriate" gender presentations serve, and why do those who do not conform become targets for discrimination and violence.