French Photographer Steve Fiehl To Present Resilient Souls, A Photo Exhibition Documenting The Daily Life of New Yorkers in Crisis
On June 10, French photographer Steve Fiehl will present RESILIENT SOULS at a private reception hosted by Bill Ford, Marigay McKee, and Jeffrey and Marjorie Rosen at the International Center for Photography.
“Jeffrey and I are thrilled to further support such an important Lower East Side organization such as The Bowery Mission and this powerful project,” Marjorie Rosen commented. “The International Center of Photography (ICP) has had a fruitful partnership with The Bowery Mission community, including presenting photographic and writing workshops that resulted in powerful self-portraits that were presented at ICP’s exhibition space at 250 Bowery in 2016.”
Steve Fiehl‘s exhibition was first shown during the 20th Valentine Gala of The Bowery Mission and will be presented throughout 2019 in different public places. It has been made possible thanks to the generous support of Richemont North America.
Steve Fiehl spent several months in the shelters and the programs of The Bowery Mission, one of the oldest and most dynamic nonprofit organizations addressing the needs of New Yorkers in crisis. He will present a large exhibition of 30 black and white photos by mixing a documentary approach and deep, personal portraits of men and women in life transformation programs, struggling to get back on their feet.
Many photographers have taken pictures of homeless people in the streets, but few have been behind the doors of shelters or documented the way reintegration programs work. Doing so helps to get rid of the “homeless” label we usually put on people living on the street and see the man or the woman in need that every one of us could become.