ting through the piles of caps (crack containers) that litter the streets for good ones that can be filled and used for resale. Another is a photo of a young boy sleeping with a small dog on his chest viscously barking at the camera. The child has to work for a drug lord twelve hours a day so that at the end of the day, he is provided a blunt to smoke and a couch to sleep on the parlor. The dog keeps watch over him while he rests, and snaps anyone who approaches the boy. One thing that has changed throughout the years is the level of intimacy reached by photographers. Since the earlier days of Riss and Hine, the general public has become much more accustomed to the presence of a camera. Perhaps, they have also realized the power that photographs have to bring about awareness and social change. However, it is still quite breathtaking how Eugene Richards takes the viewer into the lowest and most confidential aspects of his subjects lives. Many of the things that he captures are illegal and considered by many to be highly immoral. His ability to win the trust of these people is truly impressive, and the mark of an extraordinary documentary photographer....
