By Daily Mail Reporter. The men and women Chris Arnade photographs are trapped. They are prostitutes and pimps, drug dealers and addicts and nearly all of them wish they could get out of Hunts Point - an impoverished, desperate neighborhood in the Bronx called 'New York City's Red Light District.
All of them want to get out or are trying to get out and find a better life, away from the drugs, violence and sex. But most cannot. She is one of the few success stories from the neighborhood. She got out and is currently off heroin and trying to get clean. Dreams: Beauty, 21, says her johns tell her she's pretty enough to be a model. She says she has had nine pimps since she arrived in New York from Oklahoma - and many of them have been abusive. I guess I could stop at any time. Some of the guys tell me I could be a model,' Beauty, a year-old homeless prostitute says.
Maybe I can become an RN, or go into childcare. Mr Arnade was a Wall Street banker with a passion for photography when he wandered into Hunts Point four years ago. It is one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the city, situation inside the poorest Congressional district in the country. He began shooting photographs of the characters he found on the street and found that he could not tear himself away from his neighborhood.
His pictures are posted on Flickr and Facebook. He also writes extensively about the problems he has found and the people he had met on his Tumblr. Denial: Diana and John are crack cocaine addicts.
The pair had six baggies of crack and methodically smoked all of them at once. Then, Diana proceeded to put on a wig and go out to work the streets. Despite this, she claims she's not a 'crackhead. Cast out: Michael, 35, has been living on the streets has a hustler for 20 years. His parents blamed him for being sexually abused when he was a child and he left home when he was Eventually, his desire to document the neighborhood became an irresistible draw. He quit his high-paying job at Citibank and now wanders the neighborhood with his camera full time.
