Check Out The Stunning Pictures From The Citigroup Trader Who Photographs Prostitutes

Wall Street is talking about a New York Times blog piece today featuring a Citigroup employee and his passion for photographing and documenting the stories of prostitutes in the Bronx.Chris Arnade, 46, a forex trader spends a lot of his spare time in Hunts Point with his camera snapping pictures of not only prostitutes, but also homeless people and drug addicts. He also chronicles their stories usually writing underneath each photo, "I post people's stories as they tell them to me. I am not a journalist. I don't try to verify, just listen."Pictures and stories posted with permission from Chris Arnade. See his "Faces of Addiction" series, full Flickr photostream and follow his work on Twitter.Vanessa: Hunts Point, BronxVanessa, thirty-five, had three children with an abusive husband. She "lost her mind, started doing heroin," after losing the children, who were taken away and given to her mother. The drugs led to homelessness and prostitution. She grew up on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but now spends her time in Hunts Point, "trying to survive everyday. Just doing whatever it takes."She was standing on the cold street corner looking for business, wearing only flip flops and smoking with her two friends. When I asked her how she wanted to be described, Mary Alice jumped in and said "She's the sweetest woman I know. She will give you the shirt off her back, if she has one on."Pictures and stories posted with permission from Chris Arnade. See his "Faces of Addiction." Cynthia: Hunts Point, BronxCynthia, forty six, started working as a prostitute at the age of thirteen. She turned to the streets after battling her single mother in Brooklyn. "I didn't want to listen to her. She didn't give me any time." Cynthia is now the mother of fifteen children, eleven of whom are still alive. Her "baby" is sixteen, her oldest child thirty.We talked about the child prostitutes in Hunts Point now. She told me "Hunts Point isn't what it used to be, when the girls would stick together. Then came crack and heroin, that fucked up everything. A girl out there at that age. She got no choice. It ain't right."Cynthia was strung out, agitated and slurring. When I asked her how she wanted to be described she looked me in the eye, thought for a second, then said "An honest person. Thats what I am. An honest person."I post people's stories as they tell them to me. I am not a journalist. I don't try to verify, just listen.Pictures and stories posted with permission from Chris Arnade. See his "Faces of Addiction." Diane on Christmas eve: Hunts Point, BronxI was worried I would not see Diane again, the police having nastily chased both of us away last time we talked. When we did run into each other, she apologized before I could, and suggested we finish taking pictures.Seeing her in the cold, waiting for customers in the parking lot of a 7-11 at the end of Christmas Eve, got to me. The caustic attitude of the police before ("why would you want to photograph that ugly thing") and the indifference of the johns was too much. I took her picture, all the while feeling like crap.Fill up on pump 7, three powerballs and a match five, Camel lights, and ten minutes with the hooker outside.Pictures and stories posted with permission from Chris Arnade. See his "Faces of Addiction."See the rest of the story at Business InsiderPlease follow Clusterstock on Twitter and Facebook.See Also:Meet The Citigroup Trader Who Gets Prostitutes To Pose For HimCiti Shares Are Getting Crushed Right NowTwo High Level Traders Are Out At Citigroup

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