Story Archive
Below you’ll find a sampling of recent work by Voices Youth Staff. You can see work of specific types by clicking on the links to the left.
April 14, 2011
Please join us at the opening reception for VOICES latest photo gallery show, ‘My Space, My Lens’!
The gallery show, hosted at the law offices of Mesh, Clark & Rothschild, opens on Wednesday, April 27th. The free reception is from 5:30-7:30pm. Beverages and appetizers will be served.
Event details:
What: Opening Reception – My Space, My Lens
When: Wednesday, [...]
January 16, 2011
Enjoy this great photo gallery of VOICES youth apprentice journalists and City High Radio students and staff members on assignment covering President Obama’s visit to Tucson last Wednesday.
January 16, 2011
VOICES Youth Apprentice Journalist Adri White interviews Emily Hartley outside of the McKale Center on Wednesday, January 12, 2011.
January 5, 2011
As part of City High School’s Excursion Day on January 3rd, a select group of students spent the school day learning the basic concepts of photography and documented an afternoon in downtown Tucson. Their images were so diverse and artistic that it was an editing challenge for Program Director Krista Niles to make. Enjoy!
January 5, 2011
Students in the Fall VOICES Photography 101 program participated in a contest to make the best image using the technical skill of Depth of Field. Congratulations to the winners!
January 5, 2011
Students in the Fall VOICES Photography 101 program participated in a contest to make the best image using the technical skill of Shutter Speed. Congratulations to the winners!
January 5, 2011
Jonathan Parmeley’s photo essay explored graffiti in downtown Tucson.
January 5, 2011
Lola Nevarez’s photo essay explored her interest in women’s hair styles.
January 5, 2011
Savannah Thomas’ photo essay explored urban Architecture.
January 5, 2011
Emma Wilford’s photo essay explored her fascination with nature photography and the color Green.
January 5, 2011
Stella Chavin’s photo essay explored the relaxing places she spends time in.
January 5, 2011
Junior Nevarez’s photo essay explored Lines & Shapes.
January 4, 2011
Sean Bruce’s photo essay explored stickers and signs in downtown Tucson.
January 4, 2011
Vanessa Quinlan’s photo essay explored her fascination with neon lighting in Tucson.
January 4, 2011
Dalea Hermanson’s photo essay explored the crane being used to build the new Tucson Electric Power’s new building in downtown Tucson.
August 12, 2010
A day in the life of a Podcaster. Written, Directed and Photographed by Jose Morgan.
more on Jose:
Jose Morgan, 18, Edge High School (Just graduated!)
I had acquired an interest in journalism and I thought Voices was the perfect opportunity to get a head start. I have always had a passion for all things having to do [...]
August 3, 2010
Wealth
Yvette discovers that moving into low income housing improved her and her family.
Photography by Lilliana Lopez
Yvette Cruz, 18, Tucson High Magnet School:
I want to pursue a career in Journalism/Mass Communications and have been practicing since the third grade. I knew that by getting hired at VOICES, I would be expanding my horizons in the publishing [...]
August 3, 2010
RideOrDie
Charlie talks about how relationships differ in the hood.
Photo by Lilliana Lopez
Christina “Charlie” Estavillo, 19, Pima Community College:
I have been through a lot growing up and in my attempt to be different. Before VOICES, I hadn’t yet found a place where I felt at home. But I can walk in here after a bad day [...]
August 3, 2010
Truth
Nick discusses how the truth was never held from him as a child and how it’s benefited him as an adult.
Photo by Lilliana Lopez
Nick Cashman, 18, Tucson High Magnet School:
I found out about VOICES from a friend who was in it and was interested right away. I’ve had more fun here and become a much better writer [...]
May 21, 2010
Viva la Vegan!
Story and photos by Katie Tarter, 18, a senior at Tucson High Magnet School
After spending the holidays of 2008 stuffing my face with rich, delicious foods, I felt as bloated as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade balloon. My love for good food had led me to struggle with my weight for years, and [...]
May 21, 2010
Victoria Garcia explains the complex reasons she and her younger sister, Ashley, began shoplifting. We come from a low-income family that my mother can barely support with her minimum wage salary, Garcia said. The need for necessities was strong but when we fulfilled those needs, the desire for things and objects [...]
May 12, 2010
Pedro is a kid who doesn’t quite fit in, so he decides to mix things up a bit and become a boom box. See how things work out as he goes about life as the “Boom Box Kid.”
Watch the video short on KUAT here:
and on our youtube here
Pedro Reyes, 17, Amphitheater High School: Greetings and [...]
May 12, 2010
Michael Ortiz discovers the true meaning of courage.
VOICES Ortiz Courage
(VOICES Photo/Marena Priday)
May 12, 2010
KXCI: Radioactivism:
Bryan Walker discusses growing up in an interracial family.
VOICES Walker BlackSister
(VOICES Photo/Marena Priday)
May 12, 2010
Attempted Harmony: the trials of starting a high school choir club
Story by Kelsey Grace Marie Gates
I placed my hand gently on the cold, shiny doorknob and slowly rotated my wrist to ensure a silent entrance. But I tripped on my foot and ended up stumbling into the crowded classroom, pens falling out of my purse [...]
April 21, 2010
Marena Priday, 17, a junior at Sahuaro High School, shares how she learned that the seven signs of Suicidal Ideation – the detailed thoughts and plans to harm oneself – fit her. She sought, and received, help and is now working to make others aware of the warning signs.
Click this link to view Marena’s photo [...]
April 16, 2010
Cleopatra Caperón Mendoza, 15, a freshman at Sunnyside High School, writes about the person the financial cuts to the current adult GED programs in Arizona will really affect: her mother.
Click here to go directly to the story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.
March 17, 2010
Nina Foushee, 17, a student at University High School, writes about the complex reasons that motivate her to volunteer at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF).
Click here to go to story on the Tucson Weekly’s website.
February 26, 2010
Natalee Dawson on KUAZ
Natalee Dawson, a junior at Salpointe Catholic High School, speaks about her family’s growing bird collection. “There are birds, small trilling creatures, and then there are Birds with a capital ‘B’ – the ones whose beaks are uncomfortably large in comparison to your fingers.”
February 26, 2010
VOICES Youth Apprentice Fabian De Le Pena Montero, 16, a junior at Tucson High Magnet School, investigated the spiritual, cultural and artistic aspects of altars created to remember lost loved ones during Day of the Dead celebration. Montero interviewed five people as a way to explore the different ways that people turn the grief of [...]
