In this project, Where We Are, my curiosity of the neighborhoods in New York City’s Manhattan drove me to photograph the people who live in them. The images displayed from the project are photographs of people I found in a few popular but extreme neighborhoods in Manhattan. What compelled me to do this project is the curiosity I had of these neighborhoods and who I could find in them. Having been born in NYC but raised in Atlanta, this project gave me a sense of place in my family’s deep roots in New York.