There was a great article in the NY Times last week about a banker who takes pictures of people in NYC so that they have an opportunity to share their stories, harrowing and opposite of uplifting as they may be. Chris Arnade is a regular guy who goes out with a camera and talks to listens to people.
More words and pictures after the jump.
I love his disclaimer, “I post peoples stories as they tell them to me. I am not a journalist, I don’t try to verify, just listen.” And you can’t help but look and listen (read) when people like Maribel have that look on their face and say things like, “If I tell you my story, I´ll make you cry, but I wanna do the before and after, and I promise a year from today you are gonna take my picture again and I´m gonna be bloomin.”
There are so many people (and pigeons!) out there in the world with such sad, beautiful, hopeful and heartbreaking stories – I wish I had more time to go out into the streets and listen to them with my camera.
Tags: Addiction, Brownsville, NYC, Photography, photojournalism, Real People
