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FIGURE 2—— Exploded Frustration. Photograph and text by Eric Dutro, Flint, Mich, 1999.

"Violence. The line of the snow and concrete dividing the bullet hole shows that there are two sides to every story—a person with a gun and demands and a person with fear and a wallet. I am going to school. I can tell that the bus I ride in is always different because the bullet holes are always in different windows. This is rather disturbing. Many people use public transportation, which should not be a place where you should be scared. Not that riding the bus is scary, but the bullet holes are cold reminders that you never know what will happen next. This violence exists because people don’t know how to deal with hardships and anger. They think it’s easier to rob people for money or shoot when they are scared. But in the long run, it is much harder. We need to give people positive confidence somehow. Show them that they have special skills and help them find out what their gifts are. Once they believe that they are not victims of circumstance and they can determine their destiny, they will find this strength many times more powerful than a gun."