Empower Zone Youth Photography from the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative

The EZ/EC Initiative is a large-scale antipoverty effort in which more than 140 inner city & rural poor areas have been designated to receive federal dollars for revitalization. Empower Zone is the result of the photography workshops given by veteran photographer Stephen Shames to 40 teens in programs run by the EZ/EC in 1999. The photographs are accompanied by interviews with the teens.Shames, Stephen is the author of 'Empower Zone Youth Photography from the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community Initiative', published 2000 under ISBN 9780893819248 and ISBN 0893819247.