J. Daniel Hud
& Phoniex Military Academy
J. Daniel Hud & Phoniex Military Academy

Project Overview

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  • Artist — J. Daniel Hud

  • School — Phoenix Military Academy

  • Neighborhood — East Garfield Park

This photographic series documents the coming of age of students at Phoenix Military Academy in Chicago. The photographs show moments from their routines, social activities and daily lives. At Phoenix Military Academy students begin their days with military style formations and are given potential pathways towards careers in the military. Within the school the students have widely varying levels of interest in the military. The pictures show a pivotal time in life where students are newly forming their beliefs and individual lives outside of their homes. The uniform becomes a central symbol to the school’s philosophy that inner order leads to external order. How does this in turn influence or create tension with the tumult of teenage years? How does our upbringing produce our country?

Meet the Artist

J. Daniel Hud

J. Daniel Hud— Environmental Photo

J. Daniel Hud is a documentary photographer and educator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He studied photojournalism at Northern Arizona University and has had photographs in The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Stern and many other publications. In 2021 he received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. In 2022 he published “Militiagan,” a monograph detailing a year spent following the American Militia movement in the time of the 2020 election.

More from this Artist

J. Daniel Hud is a documentary photographer and educator living and working in Chicago, Illinois. He studied photojournalism at Northern Arizona University and has had photographs in The Guardian, Bloomberg Businessweek, Stern and many other publications. In 2021 he received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. In 2022 he published “Militiagan,” a monograph detailing a year spent following the American Militia movement in the time of the 2020 election.

J. Daniel Hud— Environmental Photo

Previous Residency

Nyia Sissac & Frederick Douglass High School

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