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Exhibition from August 28, 2015 through November 13, 2015. Larry Clark (b. 1943), an American photographer, film director and writer, documented his life and the lives of his friends and their drug use through the years of 1963–1971. The culmination of this series of photographs was a book, Tulsa, published in 1971, that shed light on the reality of drug use in suburban America. Clark’s gritty, unmodified photographs of teenage drug-use, sex and violence became a new style of documentary photography, one which photographers continue to pursue today. Clark’s lived experience while taking these photographs “upped the ante for engaged photography” requiring more involvement between the photographer and his subject matter. Through Tulsa’s harsh imagery a new form of documentary photography was developed.

This exhibition displayed the full series of fifty photographs. The intent of the photographs was to shine a light on the drug use and violence found in every neighborhood.