Hal Stucker is a writer and photographer. His work has appeared in Wired, the New York Times, Photo District News, and the book Black Star: 60 Years of Photojournalism. His Boston Review story “Strapped” was included in Best American Essays 2014.
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Hal Stucker is a writer and photographer. His work has appeared in Wired, the New York Times, Photo District News, and the book Black Star: 60 Years of Photojournalism. His Boston Review story “Strapped” was included in Best American Essays 2014.
The gun in my pocket was a declaration that the city had broken the social contract.
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