Acclaimed local photographer Wing Young Huie is being recognized at the Ordway Center with a U.S. Bank Sally Ordway Irvine Award for his installation of "Lake Street USA." Huie spent four years taking photographs on and around Lake Street which were then blown up and displayed outdoors on storefronts, bus shelters and buildings. MPR’s Mary Stucky met with Huie as he began installing these enormous portraits, and filed this report.

Lake Street is one of the best known thoroughfares in Minneapolis. It used to be one of the city's grandest and most used streets, but times have changed and the people who live along the street are often poor and their neighborhoods have troubled reputations. That's something Huie has attempted to change through his art.