The Other Jersey Shore: A Photographer’s Intimate Portrait of a Community on the Rocks

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The Other Jersey Shore: A Photographer’s Intimate Portrait of a Community on the Rocks – Feature Shoot

Close to Union City, New Jersey, right across the Hudson from the big, bright lights of New York City, there is a community of about 25 men and women who have been living on the side of a cliff in a makeshift encampment for over a decade. Some have been t

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This project inspired me to keep doing projects that are meaningful [to me] and hopefully to others. It [also] proved to me that it is possible to make a difference, even if it is a small one. As documentary photographers, we start with a strong belief in this, but many times feel the frustration of not always seeing this difference. After this work was published [on a larger scale], a beautiful woman named Susan from upstate New York contacted me offering her help. She bought sleeping bags and thermal material for them to use in the winter, that I [ended up] distributing. It was encouraging.—Ester Jove Soligue