george carrano

A Bronx native, GeorgeCarrano founded the non-profit Seeing for Ourselves, which brought theDeveloping Lives photography program to New York's housing authority in 2010.He has also curated exhibits of war photojournalism and participatoryphotography that The New York Times termed "poignant" and "notto be missed." Previously, Carrano raised the bar for public transit atthe Metropolitan Transportation Authority, inventing passenger displays thatbecame the industry standard; leading the agency to just-in-time logistics; andimplementing MetroCard — this last a $2 billion subway token replacement whosesuccess awed New York and has remained one of the largest public works projectsin U.S. transportation history, universally judged a city milestone. GeorgeCarrano is an editor of book Project Lives, http://www.projectlivesbook.com