New York's Strongest: Photo-Narrative Exhibition Opens

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The exhibition "New York's Strongest" opened over the valentine weekend in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. It's a photo-narrative that puts the sanitation workers of New York City in the limelight. In this next report we'll find out why the producer of the exhibition says, "It took one shoot to fall in love."

Before the city of New York opens her eyes, they are already out in the streets.

Working in one of the hardest jobs in the city, and possibly the least appreciated.

They are The New York's strongest - the New York sanitation workers.

[John Doz, Sanitation Worker]:
"You know, we're out there all the time, doing what we got to do"

[Hal, Sanitation Worker]:
"It tell's our story, from our perspective".

In a new photo-narrative exhibition opening Valentine's weekend , the men and women keeping the city clean finally get recognition.

[Hal DellaTorre, Sanitation Worker]:
"It makes a lot of guys feel a lot better about what they do, because now you have a little bit of recognition, good recognition".

[Sarah Pope, dancer & Artist]:
"I'll look twice the next time when I'm there when they're picking up the trash".

[Michael McGuigan, Managing Director, Bond Street Theatre]:
"It gives me a much more personal connection with them, for sure".

Writer Lisa Dowda and photographer Liz Ligon literally chased their subjects with pens and cameras all over the city for almost 3 years.

[Liz Ligon, photographer of "New York's Strongest"]:
"It's a sort of, look face to face, talk together, just listen to the stories of the people that are working so hard all the time".

[John Doz, Sanitation worker]:
"Oh, that was flatering to have two girls chasing after me taking pictures, you know, like, what's the matter? What did I do?"

On their website, http://chasingsanitation.com , the girls share with visitors a piece of their experience: the sights, the talks, the reasons they say: "it took one shoot to fall in love..."

[Lisa Dowda, Writer and Producer of "New York's Strongest"]:
"The more we got to do it the more e found how, great it would be, to have everybody in one room, right? All the rich people, all the educated people, bring them together with sanitation, who are forgoten, who are invisable, who may not have goten all the breaks in the world, And get them talking to each other."

The exhibition runs for the next two weeks at 411 Lafayette A Landmark Building in Noho's Landmark District, NYC.

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• Photo-Narrative
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• New York
• Sanitation
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• Bond Street Theatre
• Lafayette
• Noho's Landmark District

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