TIME
AMERICAN REALITIES
AMERICAN REALITIES
There is no single archetype for America’s poor. According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, 46 million Americans live below the poverty line, that’s the highest number since they started publishing poverty figures more than five decades ago. Economists and experts predict that number is rising. American Realities documents the lives of the people behind the statistics. We spoke to hundreds of people struggling to make ends meet, unemployed, homeless, middle class families that had dealt with financial devastation and the working poor.
I pitched, researched and produced the original story for TIME Magazine and TIME.com The overwhelming response from Joakim’s photo essay and Natasha’s podcast on TIME.com prompted us to expand the scope of the work by producing a book with Stiedl and our own American Realities multimedia website, including more photos, stories and the voices of people we interviewed.
Photographs By: Joakim Eskildsen
Multimedia Producer & Journalist: Natasha Del Toro
Photography Producer, Reporter & Researcher: Hanifa Haris
