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George Carrano Editor

George Carrano grew up in the Bronx. He worked as a civil servant in New York City for twenty-five years before retiring to pursue his true passion, the visual arts. Carrano has subsequently devoted his time to equipping and training the marginalized to take back their public narrative through the mechanism of participatory photography—the basis for the nonprofit Seeing for Ourselves he founded in 2010. Project Lives was his first book and In a Whole New Way his first film. Jonathan Fisher was also raised in the Bronx. He was one of those obnoxious brats pushing everyone out of the way on the subway trains so that he could look out the front window. After earning a master’s degree in transportation, Fisher pursued a childhood dream by working for the subway system for twenty-six years. He joined Seeing for Ourselves in 2013 as its storyteller. Project Lives was his first book. Writing and directing In a Whole New Way allowed him to cross another item off his bucket list.