Boston raised Paul D’Amato now resides and teaches in Chicago, where he has extensively photographed three public housing projects from the city’s near west side. Of this series Please Be Free Now, D’Amato says: ‘The subject of public housing, its sudden eradication, and its significance to the history of race and class issues in the U.S, though fascinating, is beyond the reach of photography’.
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Emotionally moving images. Great photography.
Fabulous. Honest, direct, and respectful. I love these images.