Zaahira
At the time of these photographs, Zaahira Currence was 14 years old and living with her mom and 3 half-siblings in a two bedroom apartment in the Projects in East Harlem, NY. We met at Grand Central after school one day when she and her friends were hanging out getting ready to go to Queens so one of the girls could get her ears pierced. That day I began to follow Zaahira and document her navigating life as a teen growing up in New York City.