In this article Teju Cole introduced and commented on Brenda Ann Kenneally’s photo book, “Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City”. The photo book started with Kayla’s pregnancy on age of 14, and decided to be co-parents with Sabrina, another 14 years old girl, then sprawls to many other young woman and guys in the neighborhood and met through Kayla.
Though not denying the tenderness in the documentation, Tejo Cole interprets Kenneally’s photographs more in “scrupulously unbeautiful” way, “cheap clothing, trash on the ground, limbs and pregnant bellies”. He recognized the sociological dimension of the book and wished Kenneally dig directly into questions of race and sexuality.  Not as a as critics, I prefer to view the photos in the author’s attitude. Kenneally record the difficult life of them very truthful, their death, their enmity, and beyond that, the birth and love, girl marries early lovers, mother feed her baby in arm.