IlluminateHER helps young Cleveland girls amplify their voices through photography

Earlier this week, at the Broadway Boys and Girls Club in Slavic Village, six Cleveland girls were busy getting ready to show photos documenting their life to the public.

The girls, aged 11 and 12, plus the assistant director of the Broadway Boys and Girls Club, will have their work featured at a photo exhibition Saturday at 78th Street Studios in Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood, starting at 5 p.m.

The project is called IlluminateHER and is in partnership with the Boys and Girls Club of Northeast Ohio. Project creator Holly Fulger, who was born in Lakewood, said IlluminateHER and her nonprofit True Beauty Discovery, were born out of years of working as an actress, writer and producer. She played opposite Jamie Lee Curtis on the ABC sitcom “Anything But Love,” among dozens of other roles on TV and film.

“As an actress, it seemed like every single thing was about how I looked, if I was right enough, if I was this enough, that enough,” she explained…

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