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Samantha Box (born 1977) is an American photographer. Box was born in Jamaica. [1]

In 2012 Time Magazine profiled Box's ongoing project of photographing Sylvia's Place, an emergency shelter for homeless LGBT youth in New York City. [2] Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [3] and Light Work, Syracuse, New York. [4]

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References

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  2. "Invisible Youth: Samantha Box". Time.
  3. "Samantha Box Untitled". mfah.org.
  4. "Samantha Box". collection.lightwork.org.