Jon Lowenstein: South Side

An epic portrait of a Chicago neighborhood’s urban and political transformations over 20 years, in photographs and interviews

For two decades, American documentary photographer Jon Lowenstein (born 1970) endeavored to capture his own neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side through still and moving images. Over the course of those 20 years, Lowenstein, his camera and his fellow Chicagoans have born witness to a number of major economic and sociopolitical moments: over 100,000 people were displac...