Apart from working on advertising and editorials, Stockbridge's main passion seems to be shooting the people and places of North Philadelphia. Philly is a city that's suffered: its population continues decreasing, unemployment is high, and approximately 24% of its inhabitants live below the poverty line. Stockbridge has photographed drifters, drug-addicts, prostitutes and disenfranchised people of the town, as well as the abandoned places they occupy. While a project like this could verge on exploitation, Stockbridge has approached it with a real sensitivity. The intimacy and tenderness with which he treats his portrait subjects is immediately recognisable. His images are at once wondrous, heart-breaking and heart-warming. More at jeffreystockbridge.com. Via booooooom.com. Follow @katiealiceolsen.