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Photographer Bill Piacesi has created Focus for the Good, a Binghampton-based nonprofit that uses photography to raise awareness and money to help the poor.
Whereas many people are accustomed to ignoring the homeless, photographer Bill Piacesi devotes himself to taking a closer look.
Black-and-white portraits capturing the weary, forgotten faces of Memphis’ most disenfranchised individuals adorn his workspace inside The Commons, a multi-tenant nonprofit center at 258 N. Merton St. in the city’s Binghampton neighborhood.
Piacesi’s photographs – which are reminiscent of Dorothea Lange’s influential Depression-era portraits – aim to create a deep emotional connection between the subject and viewer, and raise awareness around issues of social justice.
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