A joint venture of Thirteen.org and Capital New York, City Portraits is a multimedia series that combines short documentaries about people and issues related to New York City with written articles.

The goal is to tell a story of the city, the people, cultures and neighborhoods with portraits and street documentary photography. As a group we will document the diversity of the city as we visit ...

Harold Brown From the start, Bachrach’s glass-plate portraits depended on natural light, which he creatively exploited to bring out the best in his subjects. With his knack for coaxing people to ...

She set up a half dozen more in the city: at a migrant shelter ... Passersby who asked what she was doing often sat for a portrait. Lourdes Santiago González posed with her daughter, Brenda.