Sonya: Hunts Point, Bronx. “I need to get myself into rehab and out of here but I can’t just leave. I got cats and an aquarium.”
All pictures are © by Chris Arnade and used with permission.
Chris Arnade started out as a mathematician, then became a Wall Street trader, and gave it all up a year ago to dedicate his time to photography. He’s been visiting the neighborhood of Hunts Point, New York, on a regular basis since, capturing the faces (and stories behind them) of drug addicts that live there. We had the opportunity to interview him.