<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/summer-2015/portraits-reveal-inner-city-stories.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Portraits Reveal Inner-City Stories</title><excerpt>With the tip of a pencil and a piece of charcoal, Joel Daniel Phillips ’11 tells stories about people. His monumental drawings depict inhabitants of a blighted San Francisco neighborhood, shedding light on the overlooked and unidentified. For three years, he walked outside his studio and home in a former factory and asked to photograph neighbors he met on the corner of Sixth and Mission. He turns those images into revealing, life-sized graphite and charcoal portraits.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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