Photo: #Working through the Kulture Klub Collaborative, photographer Lauri Lyons and local teenagers are creating Home Is Where You Make It, a mobile exhibition of large-scale portraits of homeless youth.
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Working through the Kulture Klub Collaborative, photographer Lauri Lyons and local teenagers are creating Home Is Where You Make It, a mobile exhibition of large-scale portraits of homeless youth. (Photos Courtesy of Lauri Lyons)

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Images of the flag here and abroad

Broadcast: Midmorning, 08/19/2009, 10:06 a.m.

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You could call the U.S. Stars and Stripes an artistic obsession for Lauri Lyons. The photographer asked people she met on the street to pose with the flag and then talk about what the national symbol meant to them. And then she took the project abroad, with some surprising results.

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  • Lauri Lyons: photographer and multimedia artist. Her photographs are collected in Flag International (2008) and Flag: An American Story (2001).

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