Anonymous portraiture, photographed with a trauma-informed approach:
These stories require more focus on ephemera and traces, hints and impressions, the psychological spaces that inhabit these stories, the space of the collective imagination, of dreams, of memory.
Stories photographed for the New York Times, ProPublica, and the Wall Street Journal
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