© Joakim Eskildsen spends over seven months traveling to New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota and Georgia to photograph the many types of people who face poverty. In 2010 more Americans lived below the poverty line than at any time since 1959. The growing crisis now affects nearly 46.2 million Americans.

50mm kind of week.

Probably never doing these again.

“[Occupy Wall Street] is like Woodstock but with a purpose.”

- Natalie Cobra Puke

Sketches/ideas for a new project on preadolescent girls.

First portraits I’ve shot for my senior year. I didn’t realize how similar my formal style is to 19th century photography.