From North Philly to the Capitol
On a bus ride that was part field trip and part mission, 21 poor and working poor North Philadelphia women traveled to Washington, D.C. today to see a display of photographs they'd taken of their own tough lives.
On a bus ride that was part field trip and part mission, 21 poor and working poor North Philadelphia women traveled to Washington, D.C. today to see a display of photographs they'd taken of their own tough lives.
The photos are on display in the rotunda of the Russell Senate Office Building.
The women shot the photos with digital cameras given to them by Drexel University's School of Public Health in a project called "Witnesses to Hunger."
Since The Inquirer published a story about their photos last fall, news organizations in Asia, the Middle East and Europe have written about the women and the North Philadelphia world they photographed.
In Washington today, they met with Pennsylvania Senators Bob Casey and Arlen Specter who praised their courage for showing the intimate and difficult details of their lives to the world.