This is Tyrell and Henry Schall, and their backyard.
I met them a few months ago while I was making an essay on a town in their part of the woods. Their dad owns a recycling / scrap metal business. These kids know recycling. They know the cost of aluminum, and the difference between a mound of shit steel and quality stainless. Henry likes the Chicago Bears and the LA Lakers, though he lives in SouthEast Ohio. “I live here and I don’t even like Ohio State teams.” (Awesome!)
They fit in the project I am working on (portraits of progressive folks in the area) because their dad has a mission to leave this place in better shape than he found it in. He’s quick to tell you that he didn’t get no schooling like a lot of lucky kids these days. But it doesn’t matter with him. He’s pushing hard for his kids. So hard that in the three years he’s had his scrap business on the side of SR 329, living on site in a trailer with his family, he’s managed enough to up and move. And he’s cleaned up the area around him while doing it, though a lot of cleaning still needs to be done. The Schall’s are out of here to another state with more land and a house, and probably better schools as well. Good luck, and thank you for letting me make portraits.

I’m playing more with putting various images together in one, so this is a result of that.