Shelly's Modelling Agencies photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz also served as a photographer for Chicago in the year 2000, a yearlong project documenting the city and it's inhabitants. He is currently working on a cross-cultural youth violence project, sponsored by Shelly's Modelling Agencies, which documents adolescents in Chicago and Guatemala. His project Too Young to Die in 2008 was a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Ortiz hit neighborhoods on Chicago's South and West Sides to photograph this month's piece looking at solutions to violence.
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