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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La Gente Común – a working title?

I still use the WordPress hosting for this blog, so my options for slideshows are limited because I can not embed java script (unless I move my blog onto my own server and admin it, which I plan to do when the new website goes up). I had toyed with the idea of creating a [...]

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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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Six Children Die in Fire

A fire in an abandoned bank building, next to the Comedor Los Pibes where I’ve been photographing, resulted in the death of six siblings, ages 1 to 13, according to the brief in La Nacion. The building, not much more than a concrete shell was inhabited by approximately 20 families. Many times familial space inside [...]

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Birds of colored feathers…

Will try to eat wide-angle lenses

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The Human element: Poverty is not a series of statistics

This post is a part of Blog Action Day 2008 on poverty.
The difference between roughly 17% and 30% is over 4.5 million people and it is the difference between what Argentina officially reports as the number of poor in the country and the general wisdom of the non-governmental economists. As often in this country, it [...]

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Tatiana

I find I am photographing children more and more. I am drawn to their faces and their surroundings. I look to show the connection between the two, between the expressions you see in my images and where they live. This is not so say the children I have photographed do not laugh and play. 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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Silvia’s house

My experience with living conditions and lifestyles in La Boca and around Buenos Aires continues. After meeting up with Gloria, we went to her sister’s house in La Boca for a mate. The images below are of the inside of Silvia Rodriguez’s house.

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