PolicyMic: 8 Powerful Photos Shine Light On the People Most New Yorkers Never See

[OmahaBlueDog]

Complete article at: http://www.policymic.com/articles/76341/8-powerful-photos-shine-light-on-the-people-most-new-yorkers-never-see

Chris Arnade, 48, quit his 20-year gig as a Wall Street banker to explore the streets of the South Bronx at night and photograph prostitutes and drug addicts. Just a short distance from Wall Street, the South Bronx is the poorest congressional district in the country, with about 35% of its people living below the poverty line.

PolicyMic interviewed Arnade about his journey, inspiration, and work. Here are eight of the stunning portraits he's taken from Hunts Point, South Bronx, with his captions beneath.

"Chris Bishop was drinking in front of a liquor store when we met. A resident in the local homeless shelter, he told me the following: At the age of 13, Chris killed his father, stabbing him with a knife after a childhood of abuse. He spent the next 18 years in correctional facilities. 'When he was drunk and mad he would hold me out the apartment window and threaten to drop me to the street, eight floors below. He beat me and my mother all the time. I have been drinking ever since. To forget.' When I asked how he wanted to be described, his eyes teared up and he said, 'I am human, like everyone else.'"

[BlancheSplanchnik]

1. very very powerful. very very moving.

I would like to go out taking photos of forgotten people and capture their humanity like this guy did.

Don't know how I could undertake such a project.....but if an idea and opportunity came to me, I'd consider it.