OBAMA FOUNDATION

INSIDE THE LIFE OF A VIOLENCE INTERRUPTER

Brown Planet Productions collaborated with the Obama Foundation in documenting pastor Tracey Lee’s day to day life as a violence interrupter and supermom.

Brown Planet Productions shadowed pastor Tracey Lee and her organization Target Area, during an especially violent summer in Englewood. Tracy, a violence interrupter, works day and night to bring love and support to those affected by gun violence as well as preventing future incidents by means of de-escalation. Brown Planet Productions founder, Carlos Javier Ortiz, approached the project with a mixture of digital and analog photography, video, and audio to create an intimate portrait of the beautiful and intense reality at the heart of Chicago’s South Side.