Photos by Brian Shumway
A Not So Happy Valley




















The kids and the children are healthy and good-looking, they play sports and have friends, the neighborhood looks tranquil and the sun shines on a very typical stretch of American suburb. Yet the nephews and nieces of 39 year-old photographer Brian Shumway don’t look too happy. When he photographs them, most of them barely smile. Some don’t even bother to try.
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