Lake Street USA
(1996 – 2000)

Expanding on the concept of Frogtown, Wing photographed thousands of people in the dozen neighborhoods connected by Lake Street, a major thoroughfare in south Minneapolis that reflects the dizzying diversity of society. Then, in May 2000, with the help of dozens of volunteers, the support of community and art organizations, and the collaboration of hundreds of businesses, Lake Street was transformed into an epic six-mile public gallery. For six months, 675 photographs were exhibited in store-front windows, bus stops, and on the sides of buses and buildings, ranging from 8 by 12 inches to 8 by 12 feet.

Group of Somali men praying at a mosque.
Street artist drawing, with people watching. Photograph taken on Lake Street.
Woman at home wearing a hijab, doing homework, with children in background watching television.
Man and boy laughing on front door step.
Young Native American woman with a child on her lap.
Man sitting on blanket in Powderhorn Park, watching children playing. Lake and sunset in background.
The 21A bus that goes up and down Lake Street, filled with passengers.
Two Tibetan monks in an apartment that is a temple, performing a ceremony.
A young Latina girl wearing a white dress with a rainbow of balloons and a doll in a white dress in the background. Quinceanera ceremony.
Man and child on a bicycle along with two children on bicycles on a snowy street.
Four children on a tire swing set.
Mother and adopted child sitting next to an outdoor pool at a Corcoran Park.
Students in formal wear, standing in front of a limousine that they rented to celebrate their middle-school graduation.
Two adults, child, and baby at home performing a Jewish ceremony, called a bris.
Young goth standing in front of a comic book store with Superman in the background.
Child dancing on a ATM machine at twilight.
Woman and child at a Martin Luther King celebration.
Three young girls dressed in white at Ingebretsen's Nordic Marketplace celebrating St. Lucia Day.

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