Tears of joy streamed down her face as she covered her mouth with her hands, staring in amazement at the portrait of the proud mother smiling over the shoulder of a young girl with the dancing brown eyes.
“Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous,” Colleen Morgridge, said to her daughter, in near disbelief. “That’s us!”
Morgridge, 47, who is homeless, was getting her first look at a large portrait of her and her daughter, on display as part of Art Start’s Family Portrait Exhibit.
First launched in 2013 by Art Start, the Family Portrait Project is a collaboration between homeless families and professional photographers to document homelessness with family portraits and oral histories. The exhibit kicked off its latest installment with a reception Wednesday evening at the South Street Seaport and will be on display through the end of the year.
[For more of this story, written by Karen Savage, go to http://jjie.org/family-portrai...-perceptions/152757/]
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