All photos by Chris Arnade.

Chris Arnade is a New York based photographer who’s become internationally recognised thanks to his profiles on the homeless, drug addicted citizens of Hunts Point. He accompanies his portrait shots with prose that paints them in a light not common in mass distributed media. Having received some backlash for his work, Chris continues to strive to bring light to the situation through his Facebook and Twitter. Below is a mere snippet of his collection.

The stories of addicts in the Hunts Point neighborhood, the poorest in all of New York City. I post people’s stories as they tell them to me. What I am hoping to do, by allowing my subjects to share their dreams and burdens with the viewer and by photographing them with respect, is to show that everyone, regardless of their station in life, is as valid as anyone else.Its easy to ignore others. By not looking, by not talking to them, we can fall into constructing our own narrative that affirms our limited world view. –Chris Arnade.

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