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Intimate Portraits of Flint Show Frustration, Fear, Perseverance
“For months we had city officials tell us that it was OK to drink the water. We all had different types of illnesses going on but we never thought it was from the water.”
Siblings Julie, Antonio, and India Abram collect their daily allowance of bottled water from Fire Station #3. Located on Martin Luther King Avenue, it is one of five firehouses that have become water resource sites in Flint, Michigan.
Barnett-Pierce stands outside Fire Station #3. Harger and Smith prepare to pick up their daily allowance of bottled water at the same site.
“When the water first switched over I remember taking a shower and I’m like, ‘It smells so funny in here,’” Keonna Miles says. “And I remember probably a few months after that I started getting rashes, all around my neck, mainly. My neck would turn a bright red and it would just be stinging and burning and then it would dry up and start getting flakey and just still burning.”
more: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160209-flint-michigan-portraits-photography-lead/
