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Scenes from ‘Tiny: Streetwise Revisited’

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark landed in Seattle in 1983 on assignment for Life magazine. Among the many street kids she photographed was Erin "Tiny" Blackwell, a slight 14-year-old getting by as a prostitute. Mark would go on to photograph Blackwell for three decades.

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark landed in Seattle in 1983 on assignment for Life magazine. Among the many street kids she photographed was Erin “Tiny” Blackwell, a slight 14-year-old getting by as a prostitute. Mark would go on to photograph Blackwell for three decades.

  (Mary Ellen Mark / Aperture)

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Mary Ellen Mark, who passed away in May, was renowned as a documentary photographer for her striking images, which conveyed drama and intimacy. Beginning in 1983 — into the final years of her life — she chronicled the story of Erin “Tiny” Blackwell a troubled young woman she captured growing into adulthood. The entire three-decade project is collected in the forthcoming book “Tiny: Streetwise Revisited,” published by Aperture.

Tiny with her friends on Pike Street, 1983

For the Life assignment, Mark chronicled the lives of a whole group of street children. But as the years passed, she focused her attention on Tiny — seen here, right, with a pair of friends on Pike Street in 1983.

  (Mary Ellen Mark / Aperture)

Tiny and Pat, along the road, 1993

Tiny had a troubled relationship with her mother, Pat — part of the reason she ended up on the street to begin with. Mark captured Tiny, left, with her mother in 1993.

  (Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times)

Rayshon and Tiny on the couch, 1999

Over the course of her life, Tiny has had 10 children. Mark chronicled her time as a mother — which has been filled with moments of struggle and joy.

  (Mary Ellen Mark / Aperture)

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