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Photos and Stories by Workers
Regan Books
September 2005
224 pages
ISBN: 0060594063
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Through the lenses of donated cameras, this inspiring
collection of photographs serves as a testimonial to the
lives of people society often overlooks: the working class. They are everywhere -- the low-wage workers who make our
clothes, look after our children, and open our doors. They
are the millions of people who form the fabric of our
society -- but theirs is a world rarely seen. In unseenamerica, a program created by Esther Cohen,
thousands of workers were given cameras and lessons in
photography, and then asked to document their lives. Through
this collection of black-and-white images -- sometimes
poignant, sometimes celebratory, and always honest -- the
workers gave voice to their lives. "A lot of people assume you are what your job is: taking out
garbage or fixing plumbing," says Sam Contreras, a building
maintenance worker and participant in the program. "They
don't realize that there's an artful soul to everyone." From a worker who photographed a horse and buggy because she
says she feels like the horse, to a well-known Chinese
architect turned trucker whose photograph of a bridge
represents his path from that life to this one, the moving
stories and images in unseenamerica give an authentic -- and
much-needed -- look into the lives of working people.
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