The eldest member of Generation Z, the demographic born between 1996 and 2010 is just 24, and yet the group’s dominance is already being felt. Last year, they became the largest generation, constituting 32 percent of the global population or 2.47 billion of the 7.7 billion people on Earth, surpassing the millennials and Baby Boomers, respectively. Here, five Gen-Zers talk about their generation, and how they see themselves fitting into it.

A vigil was held by friends and family in Brownsville, Brooklyn for Arsenio Gravesande, an alleged Crips gangbanger who was shot in the hip at a nearby location the night before. Gravesande, 28 went in for emergency surgery, but could not be saved, becoming one of five people shot dead across Brooklyn and Queens in the span of 22 hours. When asked by the NYPD to identify the person who shot him, he replied, “F- -k you, son!” It was one of the last things he uttered before dying from a gunshot wound to his hip. Shooting incidents this year are up 4.2 percent through August 18th compared with the same period last year, according to the latest NYPD statistics. Some of the murders came in areas particularly dogged by surging gunplay. In NYPD’s Brooklyn South area, which includes Brownsville, stats show a 13.2 percent jump in murders and an 8.1 percent leap in shooting incidents. 2020 New York Press Photographers Association - NEWS PICTURE STORY - 3rd Place

Saheed Vassell, 34, was fatally shot by the police responding to 911 calls reporting that Vassell was holding a gun, after he had been seen pointing a silver pipe at passers-by on the streets of Crown Heights. When officers arrived at the corner of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street, they encountered Vassell, who matched the description provided by the 911 callers. Vassell then “took a two-handed shooting stance and pointed an object at the approaching officers,” the NYPD’s chief of department has said. A total of 10 shots were fired by four different officers striking Vassell several times. 2019 New York Press Photographers Association - News Picture Story - Honourable Mention

The Mother Grain is a photo and documentary project about the rapid rise in popularity of quinoa and is focused on the lives and methods of the local Aymara and Quechua Bolivian farmers, who are descended from the Incas.

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