Had an assignment to shoot at the Boys and Girls Club of Columbia yesterday.
I won’t lie…it was hard. Mostly because my conversations with the 11 and 12-year-olds went something like this…

“Hey, what you takin’ pictures of?”
“The building…the playground, stuff like that.”
“You gonna put these in the paper?”
“Yeah. I work for the paper.”
“Will somebody fix our fence after they see them?…
“Yeah, how about our basketball goal? And the window? That’s broken too…”

I only spent an hour or so with them, but I feel like there is so much more to tell here. So if you find it within you to give to them — your time, your money, whatever — please do.

Four-square.

The fence.

Books are only good if you can read them.

Broken windows, but still having fun.

The playground.