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The reception of Project Lives catapulted Seeing for Ourselves to the front ranks of participatory photography practitioners worldwide. The new imagery of the NYC housing projects and their residents encouraged the city and state to resume funding of public housing—and led the city to ask us to deliver our programming to New Yorkers on probation.

AWARDS

SUPPORTERS

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

Finalist, Best Multicultural Nonfiction Book, NextGeneration Indie Book Awards, 2016

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Former President Jimmy Carter

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Noam Chomsky

John T. Hill, Author, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye

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MEDIA COVERAGE

See Everyday Life in New York City's Projects
TIME
3/24/2015

An Intimate Look Into the Lives of NYC Public Housing Residents
BuzzFeed
3/35/2015

Residents in New York's Projects Turn the Camera Onto Themselves
New York
4/2/2015

Book Puts Public Housing Life Into Focus
Spectrum News—NY1
4/4/2015

NYCHA Residents Give Real Snapshots of Their Lives in Public Housing
PIX11-NY-TV
4/10/2015

Residents Photographs Depict life in New York City's Projects
The New York Times
4/26/2015

What It's Like To Live in New York's Public Housing
Slate
4/30/2015

Documenting Public Housing, By the People Who Call It Home
The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, National Public Radio
7/23/2015

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