SPECIAL PROJECT
Small Town, Pennsylvania: If funds shrink, can EMS in rural Pa. survive?
|
Ambulance crews see shrinking funds and staffing, even as they are tasked with
saving residents in an unprecedented epidemic of overdoses.
FIRST PERSON
My photographs of Syrian refugees were vandalized in Pittsburgh. But I will keep telling those stories.
|
"@maranierae, have you seen this?" The Instagram post mentioning my name showed portraits of Syrian refugee children; they were familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. These were the children whom I had met and photographed while working in the Zaatari refugee camp last year. But in this photo there were Xs spray-painted across each of their faces. It was an image taken at the “Displaced” exhibition presented during the Three Rivers Arts Festival under the Fort Duquesne Bridge on the Pittsburgh riverfront.
One of the last residents of Penn Plaza will continue her family’s legacy in East Liberty for now
|
“There is a real family connection here. Leaving East Liberty will destroy that. I feel like I am continuing the legacy of my family here. It keeps me connected to the folks that I have lost, to the folks that are no longer here. When I am walking up and down Penn [Avenue], I almost feel them with me.”
DEVELOP PGH
A Vietnam veteran’s last days at Penn Plaza and his new home in Wilkinsburg
|
"I’m an H.B. A Human Being. I’m not no race. I’m not black. I’m not blue. I’m not orange. I’m not white. I’m a human being. That’s all."
