Nina Berman, a New-York based photojournalist, traveled to the Open Door Shelter in Chicago, Illinois, to photograph Jonathan Smith, 20, for Do1Thing.org .
Smith has been living at the shelter for several months. He 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.”
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