Got a girl crush on: Lissa Rivera’s “Places of Education” Series

I love a gal with a great idea. Lissa Rivera’s Places of Education is a series of photos of a variety of academic establishments in the US. She breaks the series down into four categories: Private Education, Public Education, Greek Letter Societies, and Community College. Instead of focusing on the students that occupy these schools, she makes the buildings and facilities they learn in the main subjects of her photos. What’s left are patterns within the four types of institutions that provide a stark commentary on the kind of education received in those buildings:

“In some of the private schools there’s this sort of constructed sense of history or expectation, with all those portraits watching over the students,” says Rivera. “But I didn’t go into the project with an agenda or a specific juxtaposition in mind. I just wanted to see what was inside some of these places.” (via GOOD)