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Published by:    powerHouse Books

Distributed by:  Random House

Price:                  $25.00

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         Winner, Montaigne Medal,

Most Thought-Provoking Book of 2015

        The Eric Hoffer Foundation

           Winner, Best Photography Book,

             New York Book Festival, 2015

           Finalist, Best Social Change Book,

    NextGeneration Indie Book Awards, 2016

Four Photographers Tell Their Story

Finalist, Best Multicultural NonFiction Book,

 NextGeneration Indie Book Awards, 2016

Using single-use

film cameras as a window into the

heart of the projects

 

                                              

          "A joy."-- John T. Hill, author, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye

          NEW YORK PUBLIC HOUSING  RESIDENTS

                     PHOTOGRAPH THEIR WORLD

                                              

          "Inspiring."-- Noam Chomsky

 

              PAST EVENTS

ART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND EXHIBIT

June 21-August 22, 2016

 

 

ARTSPACE PATCHOGUE RECEPTION

May 30, 2015

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                  NEWS

    The global success of Project Lives led NYC to ask Seeing for Ourselves to conduct a similar program for New Yorkers on probation.

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    And so we embedded ourselves at the New York City Department of Probation in January 2018. 

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    At first, only one or two brave souls would turn up for a class.

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    But word of mouth spread.

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    By 2021, courses became over-subscribed the first day they were announced.  The waiting list for entry totaled two hundred.  The program was so successful it became institutionalized as a permanent offering of the agency.

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    The film arising from the program, In a Whole New Way, toured the festival circuit from 2021 to 2023. Honored at 200 festivals around the world, it amassed over 60 awards.

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    The companion book was published June 20, 2023.

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                  REVIEWS

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

         -- The New York Times

    "Beautiful...an unprecedented and intimate look into the lives of New York City public housing residents."

         -- BuzzFeed

    "The program started by George Carrano, Chelsea Davis and Jonathan Fisher gave photography training and equipment to NYCHA residents and encourged them to take photos of their homes -- their families and neighbors, their decorations and furnishings, and the social events at the core of their community....Whether or not NYCHA can make a comeback will have a crucial bearing on what the future of America's safety net looks like."

         -- Politico Magazine

                                       

                   PROJECT LIVES BOOK LAUNCH

           April 8, 2015

    "A startlingly simple and optimistic portrait of family, friends, and neighbors....There's nothing really specific about the projects in Project Lives.  It's just life."

         -- New York Magazine

    "A photography book on life in public housing seen through the eyes of its inhabitants...aiming to change the negative perceptions of their living conditions and culture."

         -- TIME

    IN THE CLASSROOM

      BEGINNINGS

    PROJECT LIFE: THE INDIES

    PROJECT LIFE:

    THE TABLOIDS

      Tragedy at

     Pink Houses

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