Before I came to study at long-island I didn’t even know that New York is a state. I have never been to upstate. I have read and heard a lots of story about the bottom people of student, but I have never meet one. Teju Cole’s article “A chronicle of life and pain in upstate New York” is very different from other article i have read before. Teju Cole wrote about the photo book of Brenda Ann Kenneally’s “Upstate girl’s Unraveling Vollar City”, was very impressive. Teju Cole summarized Kenneally’s art book perfectly. I believe that one of the reason that this photo book is so great is that the time it took to accomplish. Kenneally begins “Upstate Girls” since 2004 and over 14 years she recode the life of a 14-years-old pregnant girl. I was very shock when I go though those photos. Every thing was so real, I feel I am standing right in front of them and I don’t know why, i cannot look in their eyes. I have never been this close to a “Upstate Girls”.