NY Times Readers Picture the Recession

Today’s edition of the online New York Times features “Picturing the Recession: An Interactive Slideshow of Readers Photos” a presentation that attempts to show in images, the effect of the recession on the readers of the paper. The slideshows are broken down into categories, family, business, home, work, transportation, and sacrifice, and the truth is that some of photography struck me as being surprisingly good– much better than one would expect in a feature of this type. For example, this from Times reader Ben DeFlorio:

Cutting your own hair is a great way to save, and a nice art project. If you like Ben’s photography you can find more of it here:
QOOP.com where Ben has his stock photography.

Here is an image from Tom Jenz

You can see more of Tom’s professional work here..

There is this from Shawney Cohen in Canada:

We tracked down Shawney on this comedy website where it is disclosed that Cohen “is allergic to most types of metal, but not even one type of wood.”Great stuff, and who needs a resume to be a journalist.

Andy Cook contributed an image. You can see his work at Andy Cook Photography.

Photographers need all the help they can get these days, and even if the Times wants you to think that these are snapshots from average readers, here at 100eyes we want to help out!

Joe Josephs had a great shot and you can buy his book on Central Park from Blurb Books.

Andrea Girolamo was laid off from “Kitchen and Bath Design News” and contributed a nice image of her now empty workplace.

There is Joe Forte who has a classic image from Detroit, showing a man camping by an auto plant. And one from artist David Schalliol whose website I thought pretty much says it all–photography and sociology are both priced at fifty cents.