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The kids are all right
Advocate, The, March 11, 2008 by Sean Kennedy
Lucky Michaels takes photos like Ryan McGinley and looks like Carter Smith, but the up-and-coming New York City photographer isn't a fixture in the glittery art or fashion worlds like his famous predecessors are. Instead, the 27-year-old Parsons School of Design grad toils up to seven days a week as the outreach director and jack-of-all-trades for Sylvia's Place, an emergency shelter for LGBT youths, named after the late trans activist Sylvia Rae Rivera. The shelter, where Michaels has worked for five years, is the subject of his first book, Shelter, a compendium of images of the "kids" who have come through its doors under his watch. Although certainly disadvantaged and struggling to survive, the young people seen in the book--excerpted on the following pages, with captions by Michaels--powerfully challenge our preconceptions about who homeless youths are, and what they can be. And Michaels, who grew up destitute in the Detroit suburbs, sometimes living in shelters, is a model of achievement for them. No wonder the kids call him Dad.
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