A searing and intimate look at the embattled inhabitants of three representative troubled communities: East New York; North Philadelphia; and the Red Hook Housing Project in Brooklyn, New York. Accompanying the bold photographs are Richards's personal observations and interviews, with additional reporting by Time/Life front-line correspondent Edward Barnes and with a chilling and informative afterword by Dr. Stephen W. Nicholas, a paediatric AIDS physician in Harlem. Interviews with gang members, addicts, dealers, parents, children, the elderly, sex workers, police, and the clergy give voice to the afflicted communities. Richards alerts us to how drugs and the 'war on drugs' threaten the very fabric of our society, be it through lives lost to addiction, gang gunfire, AIDS from shared needles, or crime.
 
Publication date - 1994 (First Edition)
Publisher - Aperture
Format - Hardcover with dust jacket
Dimensions - 31.5cm x 24cm
Pages - 160
Condition - Very good. General cover wear, minor tearing to dust jacket and fold to small part of last two pages. These are pictured.