Design
Revealing and Playful Photographs of Life Inside New York City's Housing Projects
In Project Lives, residents turn a lens on their everyday experiences.
The towering red brick islands of Stuyvesant Town; the geometric blocks of the Williamsburg Houses—affordable housing in New York City is so often pictured from the outside, a series of buildings around which crime and despair and poverty abstractly swirl.
It’s a fraught system, and a changeable one. Yet while city government and advocacy organizations negotiate the need for progress against the scarcity of finances, one thing remains constant: these buildings are places that people call home.