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You're going to be picking up the sound from the camera.

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Ivan, 10-16, Youth and Decision, photographing.

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You know, I'm taking this one here because it shows what's going on in the communities.

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It's showing that there's a lot of drugs around.

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And that's what I see in this one.

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This one here, the picture of the alcohol, is something that has been around for years, probably, to different people.

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And we still have that problem, alcohol, drug abuse, dropouts.

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And that's what I like about this mural that reflects something that we see every day.

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Cohen, I'm about to get you. I've got you.

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Susan.

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So that's what I like about this mural that reflects what's going through our minds, our problems.

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Because he's undecided.

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I mean, if you take a look from this point, you can see that he doesn't know what to do.

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The school is here, and he would like to go there, but someone is calling him from here.

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And that's the alcohol, that's the drug.

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That's something that is continuously telling him, come this way.

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And there's more opportunity here, but I prefer to go this way.

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Because I realize that this is the place, this is the size to take.

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But he's undecided.

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Having a son yourself, do you see any parallels between this teenager and yourself?

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Yes. Usually he never knows what to do.

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I try to guide him, I try to advise him what to do.

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But he's usually undecided, because I'm telling him one thing, but when he walks out, it's another.

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When he walks out of the house, someone else is telling him what to do.

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So it's not me.

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I have a problem, he has a problem.

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The whole community has a problem.

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We have to look into it.

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And this, when you see those murals, every day will tell us that we have a problem that we have to face.

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And that's what I like about this one, that it's different from the one we saw before.

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That one was more like political, in a way.

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But this one, it tells us, let's get together and let's do something about it.

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Something that we have to keep trying.

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And that's the reason I like to photograph this.

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Because a lot of people don't see it, and I can show them on pictures what's going on.

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And I don't know if the people who put up this agree with me, but we all tend to sit in different ways.

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And that's how I judge this.

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What do you think the strongest parts of the good side are? What do you especially like?

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Education. We all know that without education, it's nothing.

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We have to, if we really want to move ahead, we have to educate ourselves.

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We really have to stay in school.

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That's a problem that we all have.

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And that's a problem that my son has, that I have to keep fighting, pushing him around.

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Not to listen to the other people, but just to listen to those that are moving ahead.

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Those who are trying to...

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There's always someone to listen that will give him the right direction to move, to go.

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So if you had Victor here, what is the lesson you think he should get from this?

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That even though he's confused, he's not the only one.

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You can see in the picture of the young guy here, the youth, that he's confused.

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And my son being 17, he's confused also. And he's looking both ways.

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I'm telling him that this is the place to go, education, to finish high school.

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But some of his friends, because they're confused, they're pulling him to move to that direction.

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And that's what I would tell him, to look this...

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And I'm sure he will.

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I don't know what will happen when he turns his back.

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I mean, we as a parent, I have to be continuously pushing him around.

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And I usually do.

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And I know that most parents do the same thing.

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But we all have to go to work.

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And this, every time they pass by, it keeps repeating themselves that there are two different places to go.

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And it works. I'm sure this is telling them what to do, to think about it.

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So you think eventually this is a message that they're going to cross to teens better than their parents?

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Yeah, it does, because they won't open a newspaper.

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You see, they don't buy a newspaper.

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Just take a look in the mornings and see how many young guys in front of the bus stop open, buy a newspaper, drop a quarter to get a newspaper.

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You don't see that many kids doing it.

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Even the kids that are going to high school, because that's something that I look at when I'm waiting for the bus.

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They won't buy the newspaper.

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So with this, at least someone is telling them to look, to see a different world, a different point of view.

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I like the colors on this one.

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The color is...

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But these are something that really is destroying the community.

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You see the drugs, alcohol, dropouts.

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I prefer to see this side.

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It's like... You see, it changed.

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Here's the mother and the father and the student.

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It really changed.

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Well, you see the mother reaching out to her son.

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Or probably it could be the teacher, because it's a woman and there's a man.

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And you can see the guy there reaching out for the confused young man.

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He's confused. They're telling him that this is the place to come.

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This is the place to go.

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Something else that I like about this one is that the people who put up this, the murals here, are mostly our students, young people.

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You can see their names, the people who work on it.

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And we're not talking about people that are...

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These are people that are continuously fighting to move forward.