By Rochelle Bowyer Winter 2020 Kaplan Award Winner My household was anything but a patriarchy, it was a matriarchy.  The “Man” of the house responsibility starts and ends with the trash. One of my few memories of my father before he arrested and was never to be seen again was, leaning over the small front … Read More

By Joshua Lee Winter 2020 Kaplan Award Winner Early December. Sleepless in Seattle was the in-flight entertainment; the plane landed just as Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan met atop the Empire State Building. It’s a dumb movie, but it gave my brain something, anything to focus on on the way back to Hawaii, on my way home. … Read More

By Jane Yang Winter 2018 Kaplan Award Winner “Ok, they are really afraid of humans, and they will go crazy when they see you guys. So maybe just wait for me outside, and I’ll bring them out?” Helen’s hand is on the door handle, and she looks afraid, as if once she opens the door, … Read More

By Gabriela Capestany Winter 2018 Kaplan Award Winner In the back of the drawer there’s a pile of wrapped saltine crackers. “There were three packs of saltines all equally laid out when I first opened this drawer” says Julian O’Leary, one of the teaching assistants for the University of Washington College of Built Environments darkroom. … Read More