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New York City has long been a melting pot of cultural diversity, where people for the most part live in harmony despite and perhaps because of their differences.
New York photographer Danny Goldfield has set out on a multi-year mission to portray this diversity through portraits of children living in New York's five boroughs. Goldfield, whose NYChildren project is featured in this week's issue of LIFE magazine, has set out to photograph at least one child from each of the world's nations living in New York City.
Of the 192 nations he's identified, he's photographed children from 123 countries so far, including this beautiful portrait of Basim who represents Iraq.
"It is amazing what is becoming of this simple idea: Photograph one child from every country on earth," Goldfield writes on his website. "It started by my reaching out to a family in my building, then on to my grandmother's nurse's friend's friend. Once other people heard about the project, they passed it along to their friends, and NYChildren simply took off."
Goldfield has registered the project as a non-profit, and he's currently seeking volunteer subjects 12 years or younger from the remaining 69 countries.
The photographer's goal is to take candid photographs of children in their natural environment, and the results are heartwarming reflections of a city with enormous potential. The issue of LIFE reproduces 11 of the portraits, and Goldfield has posted many of the shots on the NYChildren website.
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