Home Share Now commissioned The Portrait Project to tell the stories of home sharing throughout central Vermont. In these images, photographer John Lazenby answers the question What does home sharing look like?
Home Share Now’s mission is to help central Vermonters develop successful home shares in order to create affordable housing options with positive community and environmental impacts.
John Lazenby is a former managing editor of Vermont Life magazine and a photojournalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vermont Life, and Country Journal, among other publications. In addition to his work for Home Share Now he has recently been helping the Vermont Community Foundation document relief efforts in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene. His black and white images of the Susquehanna River Valley have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania State University and the Pennsylvania State Museum. He lives with his family in Montpelier. More information is available at www.lazenbyphoto.com.
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