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It's 3:00 a.m. No way to sleep. Imaginary bedbugs chewing at me. The air is oppressive, like being buried alive. The cries of asthmatic children sniffling, screaming, sleep-talking keeps me on edge. In semi-darkness I wander among the beds, seeing mothers wrapped around their babies, like bears in hibernation. In one lower bunk, I find an exhausted mother, Pam, rocking her wailing week-old daughter. Pams face glows with inner peace. She is one of the lucky ones. She escaped an abusive relationship and found shelter here. Olive Branch Mission, Chicago.

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 40.5 × 50.5 cm (15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in.) image: 33 × 49.1 cm (13 × 19 5/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Department

CPH

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Donna Ferrato)

Accession Number

2015.19.5139

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