Photographer John Hu

Photographer John Huet’s larger-than-life portraits of “Boston Uncornered” students, many of them former gang members, are the centerpiece of an outdoor exhibition at the Boston Common August 13-25. “Boston Uncornered” is a project of College Bound Dorchester (CBD), a non-profit dedicated to reducing violence on Boston streets by helping former or current gang members earn high school equivalency degrees, and then get into and graduate from college. Each portrait is accompanied by the a brief personal story, in the words of the sitter, about how they turned their life around—or became “uncornered,” in CBD parlance. Follow the link in our profile to see more from the exhibition on #PDNPOTD. [Photo: Lealah Fulton, @collegebounddot Staff: “As a victim of gun violence I know how it feels to spend years being angry at your assailant and not understanding how or why this happened to you. The opportunity to be close to those who both perpetrated and are victims of this violence deepened my understanding. So as I sat in a courtroom with the men who had shot me and let go of that anger; that act of forgiving was my UNCORNERING." © @johnhuet]