Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.

photography, photojournalism, black & white, spain, barcelona, gilles larrain, eugene richards

Since April of 2002 I have been documenting the lives of young Puerto Rican women and their families living in Spanish Harlem, Manhattan, New York. There is a hardness that characterizes these streets, and innocence dies young. This community has a high rate of unemployment (3 times more than NYC average). The family income is based on public assistance and often supplemented by the underground economy of the street; the sale of drugs and other illegal activities that commonly lead to detention, prison, and death.