Philadelphia is not always a city of brotherly love. It recently registered the highest number of homicides in the nation. That’s why my mother didn’t want me to travel there to photograph some of the 2,700 murals that now make Philadelphia the mural capital of the world. Last summer, Time magazine (August 23, 2007) ran a short feature on Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Project (...)
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Painting Hope
The Murals of Inner-city Philadelphia
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