Documenting Detroit is a community-based photojournalism initiative that’s partnering 21 local and regional emerging and early career photographers in a Fellowship with national and international photographers and editors as mentors. This documentary project illustrating lives of Detroiters throughout the city’s 139 square miles, focusing on daily life, personal stories, and larger social, political, and economic issues. My images follow the talented and creative youth and their families of the Southwest Detroit Community.