The print version: La Gente Común / Everyday People

It is finally in print. I made the book for two reasons. One so that I could feel as though the project had reached a conclusion (because the recovering journalist in me still needs to see things in print) and so that I might give a copy to the Comedor.
You’re welcome to buy one too [...]

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Los Pibes – a portrait project, part 1 (ongoing)

Below are portraits of the people at Comedor Los Pibes, La Boca, Argentina. This is not everyone who works there and there are also a few children included and they either have parents that work there or attend one of the after-school studies.
The Comedor Los Pibes can best be described as a social organization. They [...]

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Gloria’s house

Finalmente. Finally. I thought I’d post a few photographs from Gloria’s house. Gloria Rodriguez, 44, lives in Villa 31 behind the Retiro bus station in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She works at a cooperative called the Comedor Los Pibes in La Boca. There she spends her day sewing or participating in marches or protests as the [...]

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From my point of view

creen printing slide waiting to be mounted as members of the Comedor Los Pibes work on a new job for the Argentina Ministry of Health.

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