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Project Lives
''Project Lives'' is a book that appears to live at the interstices of Photography and Urban Studies. It is edited by George Carrano, Chelsea Davis, and Jonathan Fisher and seems to be their first book. The work is essentially a collection of photographs of life in the New York public housing projects, photos that the editorial team equipped and trained the residents to take themselves. The photographs are underlain by a narrative documenting the challenges faced by residents, explaining what has brought this environment to its current state, and suggesting the stakes involved in the restoration of a once proud civic achievement. The book's purpose, according to its editors, is to showcase an authentic view of the projects to counter a generation-long media focus on crime, disrepair, degradation, and despair; and in so doing restart government support of homes to half a million New Yorkers. All editor royalties are being donated to resident programs at NYCHA (as the New York City Housing Authority is known).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nycha/index.page )〕
Critics in the United States and elsewhere praised ''Project Lives'' for its insights into life in homes on the verge of government abandonment; for the striking dignity of the photographers and their subjects; and for the book's shattering of decades-old stereotypes.
Exhibitions of photographs featured in the book have taken place in the New York metropolitan area.
== Background ==
The book is built upon one what it terms one of the largest participatory photography programs ever undertaken, which the editors brought to the New York City Housing Authority in 2010 on behalf of the 501(c)(3) non-profit Seeing for Ourselves. Participants recruited from the projects were given single-use film cameras and trained in a twelve-week lecture/workshop course in photography. In between sessions, the participants would put into practice the lesson learned at the previous class. As Davis would tell CUNY-TV, "We talked a little bit about photography technique, such as light and shadow, or camera language, or composition. And we talked a little bit about the history of photography, and offered some inspirational photographers. And then the latter half was the photographers sharing their own work." According to the book, cameras were donated by Kodak and computers by Dell Computers, while film was processed at cost by Duggal Visual Solutions. Beginning in a project in West Harlem that fall with 15 participants, the program is said by the book to have mushroomed to serving hundreds of residents of 16 projects by the time it ended in the spring of 2013. The program was covered by a New York City tabloid early on.
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