#project lives

So cool to see a photography project where unrepresented people ( peeps other than topless hipster girls in ruffled bedsheets) document their own lives and bring some positive light to a situation (living in NY projects) that many judge without awareness!

Plus all of the profits from the book benefit resident programs of the New York Housing Authority! Buy it here 

"I had taken a pic of my cousin Jamara," writes Aaliyah Colon, an 11-year-old resident of the Manhattanville Houses in Harlem. "He is three and was in my aunt’s room. He was just upset and was kind of in a hurry to take his stuff off." Colon is describing the picture above, one she also took, of a little boy with wide eyes and fingers holding the brim of his Yankee cap. It's about as normal a scene as you can get, but frozen in a snapshot, it radiates a quiet power.