Arleen Thaler

Photojournalist
   
Childhood Poverty
Location: Cayuga, NY
Nationality: Lebanese American
Biography: Arleen Thaler is a socially engaged photojournalist based out of Cayuga, NY.  Photographing for POST Rochester magazine and most recently added to the list of photographers working with the Focal Point Project in NYC, it is her hope to... MORE
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Childhood Poverty
Copyright Arleen Thaler 2024
Updated Feb 2021
Location Upstate New York
Topics Black and White, Candid, Documentary, Environmental, Motherhood, Photography, Photojournalism, Poverty

I met this little girl at a soup kitchen in Rochester, New York while capturing images that helped to answer the question, 'What is poverty?' She and her mother were visiting their grandmother as they were in need of nutritional support. After meeting and getting to know them, they agreed to let me into their home to document what a day in the life of their littlest family member looked like.


At the time of my home visit, they had no means of garbage disposal, used their food stamps at the gas station across the street to purchase lunch that day and were living in what some might consider squalor and filth. Her father struggling to make ends meet and nearing the loss of his job, while her mother was on the hunt for a job, had one very rich thing to offer her...lots of love.


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