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Homeless Reflect on Life in a New York City Hotel Room, One Year Later
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Jeff Wolford in his hotel room, April 6, 2021. July 1 is the day the city has suggested it will complete its transition of people from hotels back to the homeless shelter system, where people were 61% more likely to die of COVID than anywhere else at the height of the pandemic last spring. Photographer for THE CITY.about the photographer
Hiram Alejandro Durán is a Brooklyn-based freelance photographer from the Ciudád Juarez, Chihuahua–El Paso, Texas border region. He is the Photo Editor at The Riverdale Press, a Photo Contributor at THE CITY and a frequent contributor to The Imprint News. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Marshall Project, The Mail & Guardian (South Africa) and Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (Puerto Rico) via the Pulitzer Center.back to gallery