Book On SALE Now!
The Everybody Needs Someone, The Aging out of Foster Care Project Book is published and available for purchase! You can order our book through paypal by selecting the Buy Now button below. The book is 94 pages, 9″x12″. Funds raised through the sale of the book will go right back into production of the Aging [...]
Brittny
Photos and Video by William Vazquez Aging out of Foster Care, Brittny’s Story from William Vazquez on Vimeo. Brittny’s mother and father were unable to care for her and she passed back and forth between her parents and grandparents. It was her grand parents that finally put her into foster care. While in foster care [...]
Latest NYC Meetup. Photo Editing Session for LICM Exhibition
The SalaamGarageNYC team was in full photo editing mode at the latest NYC Meetup. We are getting ready for the Everybody Needs Someone, Aging-Out of Foster Care in NY Book and Exhibition. It is hard work picking images and text from this adult project that explores what happens when youth age out of the foster [...]
Stepping Stones to Independence, Fekri’s Journey
Story By Tommy Hallissey Photography by Bruce Byers Fekri from Bruce Byers on Vimeo. Without a word, Fekri’s disarming, toothy smile betrays the suffering he endured coming of age in the New York City foster care system. Those crooked pearly whites hide the agony of being sold into slavery in Tunisia at the age of [...]
Linda’s Story, Aging Out of Foster Care in NYC
Story by Carrie Vining Spanier Photos by Ian Spanier Upon meeting Linda J., I was immediately struck by her confidence and overall presence. We spoke as if she had known me for years. She shared as if I were her confidant. Twenty one-year-old Linda, was thrust into the foster care system at the tender age [...]