Summer enterprise

Jasmira Vallecillo, 2, (right) and Lieany Vallecillo, 5, both of Camden, play at a small pool in the park on the corner of Clinton and 4th Sts. in Camden.

Barber shop stories I

Lester Johnson, barber in Brewerytown, shows a knife wound from his gang and drug dealing days back in the 1970s and tells a story of shooting the guy who stabbed him. Johnson stills lives in a rough part of Philadelphia where he grew up.

After dark

Narcotics guys busting suspended drug dealers in Camden on a recent night.

Non-Profit Gym

DaQuan Daniels, 12, of Camden reacts to winning an invisible chair competition at a non-profit gym that Steve Liberati (left) opened in a a coomunity center of Centennial VIllage apartment complex in Camden to train local kids and keep them busy in the afternoon. 07/26/07 Marcin Szczepanski/Courier Post



Kelvin "Pooh" Darby, 13, of Camden finishes writing a motivational phrase at a non-profit gym that Steve Liberati opened in a a coomunity center of an apartment complex in Camden to train local kids and keep them busy in the afternoon. 07/26/07 Marcin Szczepanski/Courier Post

Urban Cowboys

Two shots from a slideshow I just did on a memorial service and a horse parade hold in the memory of Russell W. Neugent, 79, first black Mounted Patrol officer of the Philadelphia Police Department and a long time member of the Cowboys and Girls Association of Philadelphia, who passed away a week earlier.

Pool Opening

These two images are from my ongoing project on the neighborhood where I live in Philadelphia. A pool just opened across the street from our house and I was there to cover it. The opening has been postponed twice so kids were anxious to get into the water.