How long can we ignore these broken segments of our population and at what cost?
Humane Exposures focuses its energy and its cameras on three crucial areas of social concern

Homelessness

downTown U.S.A.: A Personal Journey with the Homeless
In the book, downTown U.S.A.: A Personal Journey with the Homeless, photojournalist Susan Madden Lankford kept a journal during her daily encounters with San Diego street people, observing how even the defeated, or seemingly so, share many of our hopes and dreams.

Incarceration

Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time
The first in a photojournalistic series that addresses the social issues of child abuse and neglect, homelessness, incarceration, and the special needs of women behind bars, Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time offers an in-depth and illuminating look at the lives of incarcerated women.

Juvenile Justice

BORN, NOT RAISED
BORN, NOT RAISED explores the troubled psyches of youngsters serving time in juvenile hall. The book showcases a variety of creative tasks taken on by the young detainees—writing projects, artwork, elicited responses to photographs.

Exposures

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Women On The Inside
Female Inmates Share Their Stories

Photographer Susan Lankford spent two years interviewing and photographing the inmates and staff at several jails in San Diego. She can be heard conducting the interviews in this slideshow. Her book, 'Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes,' was published in September.

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