personal work: "you must not know 'bout me..."

Hunts Point, South Bronx

Nina.Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.
   
Nina looking out the window of her apartment. The scars on her back are the result of third degree burns she suffered in an apartment fire when she was a child. Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.
   
Nina sitting on her bed.Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.
     
  
A school photo of Nina’s eleven year-old son on the floor of her apartment.Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.
   
Babygirl with scratches she got fighting with another woman while she was in prison.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Sonya looking at a photograph of her granddaughter, whom she has yet to meet because she is estranged from her daughter (the child's mother). Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
     
  
Smoking crack in the car on the way to visit Delilah in the hospital.East Harlem 2007.
   
Sidewalk graffiti. Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Babygirl trying to "catch a date".Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
     
  
Nina standing on the corner where she works.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Talking to a customer.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Nina in the street outside the police precinct.Harlem 2007.
     
  
Getting high and watching TV.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Sonya and Babygirl.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
   
Sonya and Gladys fighting.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
     
  
Sonya opening a gift from Babygirl. Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
   
Babygirl getting ready to go out to work.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
     
  
Waiting for customers in the street at night.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Nina in the street at night,Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Nina standing in the doorway of her apartment.Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.
     
  
Babygirl reflected in a mirror smoking a cigarette.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Watching live video footage from the building's security cameras. Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Sonya getting high in an empty apartment.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
     
  
Sonya's laundry drying in the bathroom.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
   
Nina frying pork chops for dinner.Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.
   
Sonya with a handful of cash.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
     
  
Bitches 'n ho's.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2008.
   
Babygirl in bed.Hunts Point, South Bronx 2007.
   
Nina getting ready to go out.Southern Boulevard, South Bronx 2007.