Ralph Steadman was born in Merseyside in 1936 and grew up in North Wales. He found his calling in a tiny advert for a Percy V Bradshaw illustration course: “You too can learn to draw and earn £££s”. In the 1960s his work appeared in Punch and Private Eye, ...
24 Jul 2014 - Adam Forrest
Ly Tran* is washing dishes when I arrive at her house. She wears a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants with neon green lines running up the leg, her short black hair bobbing up and down as she wipes dry a plate. Her quiet demeanor contrasts with the slew of br ...
10 Jul 2014 - Samantha Lew
Caught in battles, animals are often displaced and, sadly, many get killed in crossfire. This series offers some startling photography, highlighting both the pain of war and how compassion can survive in the most horrific of circumstances. These photos we ...
10 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
INSPiring people: International Vendor Week In honor of International Vendor Week, I would like to tell the story of how my vendor Jamie got me involved with Street Roots back in 2008. I'd just moved from Seattle—where I'd always purchased Real ...
7 Feb 2013 - Sarah Beecroft
You may know your vendor in Portland, but did you know that he or she is one of tens of thousands of vendors around the globe, working their way out of homelessness and poverty with newspapers papers just like Street Roots. Here are a few of the faces fro ...
7 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Now living in Chicago, the Scottish author talks about his new novel, homelessness and drugs By Billy Briggs, Contributing Writer Speaking to a street paper reporter during a recent outing in Edinburgh, Scotland, author Irvine Welsh described the street p ...
30 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
The International Network of Street Papers celebrates 15 years of advocacy and engagement [caption id="attachment_1453" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The faces of street papers from around the world. This is u ...
24 May 2009 - Street Roots
North American Street Newspaper Association hires first Executive Director The North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA) hired its first Executive Director, Andy Freeze from StreetvVibes in Cincinnati, Ohio. Freeze, pictured above (left), will h ...
7 Jan 2009 - Street Roots