As a foreign exchange trader for Citigroup, Chris Arnade, 46, makes a good income, and lives with his wife and three children in a spacious apartment he owns in Brooklyn Heights, accordng to the NY Times' City Blogs.
But during much of his spare time, he can be found driving the family minivan around Hunts Point in the Bronx, photographing prostitutes and documenting their lives.
Mr. Arnade says he hopes his photos and descriptions provide a platform for some of the most marginalized New Yorkers to tell their stories.
Mr. Arnade has also taken photos of homeless people and drug addicts found in the gritty corners of Hunts Point.
Under each photo and description, Mr. Arnade includes the words “I post people’s stories as they tell them to me. I am not a journalist. I don’t try to verify, just listen.”
You know it’s gotta be a slow, slow news day when a feature story like this turns up in the big bucks media, print and online.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/telling-the-stories-of-hunts-point-one-portrait-at-a-time/
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