In Brooklyn, Photographing an Invisible Child

Ruth Fremson, a Times staff photographer, recalls the rewards and perils of photographing Dasani and her family, the subjects of a series on childhood homelessness and poverty.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/in-brooklyn-photographing-an-invisible-child/?_r=0

After covering extreme poverty in Haiti, Bangladesh and India, I was assigned to a project on child homelessness in New York.

It was an altogether new realm.