One summer night in 2008, Joel Perez, A08, settled into his seat in Broadway’s Richard Rodgers Theatre and watched the curtain rise on a graffiti-splashed, bodega-on-the-corner neighborhood in New York City.
Each of the 65 photos is more joyous than the last: high school graduates wrapped in gold, purple, or turquoise, a whirlwind of exuberant grins and arms thrust high into the air with the triumph of having made it to this moment.
