The recession was hard on a lot of people, but one Los Angeles photographer has found great personal satisfaction documenting the positive effects the recession has had on people.
Amid a downturn in her own career in advertising, Remy Haynes decided to come up with a project that would showcase her journalistic nature while uncovering the stories of people whose lives have changed for the better since the recession.
The Currency Project became a website with video interviews and posted stories, as well as a photo exhibition that ran in the James Gray Gallery.