John Delaney photographs soup kitchen volunteers with stunning poignancy

Date
20 September 2012

Before John Delaney launched himself at full force into taking phootgraphs, he spent the best part of 15 years working as master printer for photography icon Richard Avedon. No biggie.

John Delaney has become a serious dab-hand when it comes to his own projects and if his latest stunning series The Volunteers is anything to go by, photography is well and truly John Delaney’s thing.

Specialising in monochrome, the series beautifully documents the volunteers working at New York’s Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen. And while a soup kitchen setting would more than likely centre most photographer’s attention upon the attendees, it is John’s interest in the volunteers that makes his project really stand out and demonstrates his eye for documentary photography.

With the volunteers all working at the largest soup kitchen in New York City, the photographs expose the beautiful diversity in a group of strangers who – despite their obvious differences – come together for the greater good of others. From a muscular man, who judging by his pout can only be described as a wannabe model, to frail older ladies they couldn’t seem much more of a mis-matched bunch but they all share the common ground of wanting to help others.

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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John Delaney: The Volunteers

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