Drug Violence

General News, Honorable Mention prize stories

1995

Crack cocaine is packaged prior to being sold. America's inner cities continue to struggle with crime, drugs and violence. In Baltimore, one of every three children lives in poverty. More than half of all African American children are raised by a single mother. Drug addiction and alcoholism are common in the community. Some youth turn to street gangs as a surrogate family, others withdraw into a world of their own.

Commissioned by: The Baltimore Sun

Photo Credit: Andre Lambertson

Andre Lambertson is a New York based photojournalist and filmmaker who is committed to documentary stories of hope, healing and transformation. He creates award-winning photo essays on social issues for magazines, books, foundations, advocacy organizations, such as Time, US News and World Report, Life, The New York Times Magazine, The Ford Foundation, The George Sorros Foundation, The International Center of Photography, The Smithsonian Museum. He has been a faculty member of The International Center of Photography’s Photojournalism Department for the past five years. His work has been featured in newspapers including The Baltimore Sun where he was a staff photographer. The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Village Voice. Lambertson’s Magazine work include Life, the New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Times, U.S. News & World Report, and Fortune.

Lambertson has received three Picture of the Year Awards, The World Press Photo Award, and the George Sorros Foundation’s Media Grant.