Camden

Producer: Lowell Boston

From the Fall of 2004, and through 2005 the city of Camden, New Jersey has been labeled the most dangerous municipality in which to live in the entire United States, edging past such as cities as Detroit, Atlanta and St. Louis in the categories of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. For the past 10 years I have commuted by train through Camden, experiencing the city as both traveler, and spectator – unscathed, yet touched by what I’ve seen.

Lowell Boston, born in up-state New York, discovered an interest in art from an early age. Pursuing a love of drawing and works of the imagination he soon found himself lured to the possibility of film and animation. Upon graduating high school he attended the University of the Arts as the only African-American double major in live-action filmmaking and animation. He then continued on to earn his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Currently, he teaches animation at both the University of the Arts, the Art Institute of Philadelphia, and conducts animation workshops across the Delaware Valley. His personal and professional work has been shown on MiND TV, and nationally on ABC, Fox, and ESPN. For the past 14 years he and his wife have happily resided in Collingswood, New Jersey.