Occupy Boston.

I decided to go to Occupy Boston today out of a curiosity of what the group was really doing, and a desire to document it. I'm glad I went. After being a little upset to see how the press photographers were treating the group I decided to take a little more human approach and show the people themselves instead of random snaps of peoples signs taken with a 200mm lens.





This is Maria. She is an RN and one of the people responsible for caring for the citizens of the tent city set up outside the Federal Reserve building. She is going through a divorce right now, and was staying at Occupy to help foster change and because it was a positive thing for her to do.




Her feet had a ton of blisters, she had to go barefoot. On her hospital discharge papers it said "do not attend occupy boston for 3-4 days". She didn't follow orders.




Below are some of the portraits I took throughout the day.














And now candids and sign pictures:



Obviously needed one establishing shot with the mask and the location.