Two Photos By Zoe Strauss

Philadelphia-based documentary photographer Zoe Strauss takes such intense and wonderful photographs of people and their intimate urban environments that it seems almost criminal to represent her with pictures like these, which she took on a recent trip to Las Vegas. But they are very good and she said I could post them.


See?

I absolve myself only by saying that you really need to go see more of her work on her blog. Now it's your responsibility, not mine.

Strauss is also tangled up in a very frustrating battle with the Department of Human Services over a teen-produced documentary about her life and work. You can read all about it on her blog.