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About this episode

Nina Berman photographed Jonathan Smith, 20, for Do1Thing.org in and outside the Open Door Shelter in Chicago, Illinois where he has been staying the last few months.Smith grew up outside of Buffalo, New York in a household of alcoholism and abuse with several reports filed to the state's child protection services by his school and neighbors. He left home at 16 and has had minimal contact with his family. He described his childhood as one that left him "emotionally and physically scarred."Produced by Nina Berman for the Do1Thing Projecthttp://do1thing.org

• Release Date

  Feb 18, 2009

• Runtime

  03:03