Edmonton photographer tells inner city stories

An Edmonton photographer is showcasing the people of the inner city in the very streets they frequent.
For the last few years, Jerry Cordeiro has been documenting Edmontonians from all walks of life on his blog, the Humans of Edmonton Experience. On the blog, Cordeiro shoots a portrait of people he meets and includes a short interview with them.
Building on that work, he's now partnered with a global initiative called the Inside Out project that takes portrait photos from all over the world and prints them so they can be displayed outside.
He's placed his first group of images at central place for Edmonton's downtown down-and-out — the Quasar Bottle Depot on 95 Street.
“It gives an awareness to what is going on and the increased amount of homelessness,” said Cordeiro.
Cordeiro put up a wall of images this weekend and said there are more to come.
“I have about 100 more and I am going to be scattering them throughout the city,” he said.
Cordeiro said it’s been interesting to see the reaction of some of the people he has photographed when their picture appears on one of the enlarged prints.

“Some of them tore it down and they actually took their portrait home,” he said.
He said both the blog and the portrait project are a chance to show that there is more to the homeless than most people see. Photographer in Lucknow