Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

After pressing the reset button on my life, by leaving the stereotyped path of a photojournalism school graduate, I find myself in Chicago. Since the start of 2007 I have been working as tutor/mentor/manager of a learning center on the wild west side of the city, teaching kids from low income families suffering the ills of Chicago Public Schools, while always pursuing my photography.

“He who knows men is clever; He who knows himself has insight. He who conquers men has force; He who conquers himself is truly stong.” – Lao Tzu

“Mysteriously, wonderfully, I bid farewell to what goes, I greet what comes; for what comes cannot be denied, and what goes cannot be detained.” – Chuang-tzu