Eli Reed “I shot an assignment for New York Magazine on a Bed Stuyvesant, Brooklyn street with a serious drug problem. There, I ran into a young black woman walking in the street and felt compelled to ask h
(...) er permission about returning to the area on the next day in order to make a portrait of her with my medium format camera. I saw something in this young woman that could have been my life but for good fortune and the grace of God.
She lived in an apartment consisting for the most part of one large room. There wasn’t much light in the room but I could see in the dim light other people who were sitting and some who seemed to be sleeping. They could have been friends or family. As I made the portrait on that next morning, I could see an angelic light of hopeful possibility for a better future in her face and for her child. It made me think of the pathways I had traveled in my own life and inside my quiet mind – I wished her the best of all the good luck that could possibly come her way.” — Eli Reed © Eli Reed | Magnum Photos
