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Winner, Montaigne Medal

Most Thought-Provoking Book of 2015

The Eric Hoffer Foundation

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"Most New Yorkers know what public housing looks like from the outside, but a bracingly compilation of pictures takes you into the interiors of the buildings and thus into the residents' startlingly ordinary lives."

THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Stunning photographs....A fascinating book!"

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

"Beautiful."

BUZZFEED

"An incredibly moving book."

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Seeing for Ourselves equips and trains marginalized individuals to take control of their own public narrative by documenting their lives photographically.

The practice is known as "participatory photography."

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