Life, Love and Honor in Newark’s Housing Projects
Akintola Hanif’s photographs of public housing around Newark are his testament to residents he knows as honorable, loving and hardworking.
For some, the thought of Newark’s housing projects conjure up images of crowded brick high-rises with tight hallways and dangerous, dimly lighted corners. But Akintola Hanif sees a very different scene when he photographs there — a place where children play and people love and live their lives as a large community.