Freelance photographer, filmmaker,
writer, and teacher
Brooklyn, New York
Topic: Photographic essays, educational videos, and oral histories that assess, document, and challenge the world's discrimination against and abuse of people who have mental illnesses
Published Work:
The Connection.org: Eugene Richards
Photojournalist Eugene Richards's images are both searing, and incredibly intimate. There's the young boy crying on the bathroom floor of a housing project; the hollow eyes of a mental patient in Mexico; a needle gripped in the mouth of a heroin addict in New York City.
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