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Don’t Quit Your Day Job? No Problem.

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All images by Chris Anande. Captions are all his, as well.

If you’ve been using the excuse that you’re not making powerful shiznit because you’re not a full-time photographer, take a lesson from this guy.

Chris Arnade is 46, (Twitter @chris_arnade) lives in New York, and is a banker by day. But it’s not his ability to count money that’s gotten him a lot of press lately…it’s his hobby, which is photographing the faces of drug addicts (mostly prostitutes) in the Bronx. And they are real and very simple and touching and hard. And it’s not his day job. It’s just what he does to unwind.

Flip through some of my favorite shots of Chris’s on the image tabs above and see what he does in his spare time. The extended captions below the images are as simple, yet priceless, as the images.

I am not a journalist, I don’t verify, just listen.

Its very easy ito simply run with your crowd, to not explore the amazing diversity and perspectives that are offered. Its also very easy to ignore others. By not looking, by not talking to them, we can often fall into constructing our own narrative that affirms our limited world view. 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.

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via his Flickr set, Faces of Addiction:

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Don’t Quit Your Day Job? No Problem.

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  1. the lovely dragon says:
    September 23, 2014 at 12:43 am

    I love you.

  2. Fenne says:
    March 25, 2014 at 9:30 am

    Thanks for sharing these very strong photographs and their stories.

  3. Jim says:
    March 25, 2014 at 8:55 am

    Amazing depth of work that evokes both a visual and mental feeling. Well done. J

  4. Selena says:
    March 25, 2014 at 8:32 am

    The pain and the poetry. Thanks for connecting me to this work. Addiction is a real sad story and I think Chris is documenting it in a very honest way.

    p.s I don’t give a shiznit about what you said when how you said what, and I don’t really care that this guy is a or was a banker.
    the work speaks for itself.

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