The first time I interviewed Griselda Rocha in Wimauma, FL, she was wearing a tee-shirt that read: “Fear is for Others.”
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Interviews with bodega owners, including HDR photographs of the buildings, video interviews, and written article about the owner(s).
Vietnamese-American bodega owner Von Nguyen has experienced extraordinary, even unimaginable events in his life. He told me three of them.
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Several decades ago I was a penniless young man living in a third floor flat in Peabody, Massachusetts. Believing I could affect change and meet…
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The facade of the A & I Convenience Store is the most bizarre I’ve encountered while doing The Bodega Project.
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Manuel Mariñez had a formula to get into the bodega business at the young age of 22. It meant making some sacrifices, but he was sure it would work. He was right.
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It doesn’t look like it belongs. Mama’s Ti Marche bodega sits just outside of Boston’s busy Mattapan Square. But from its quaint sign outside to…
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If anyone can be said to have bodegas in his blood, it’s Alexandro Tejeda of Las Americas Market in Dorchester. He’s owned the store since…
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At Diana Market in Hyde Park, MA, a young Bengali couple rapidly adapts to running a business in the United States.
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What makes one want to buy a broken-down bodega and transform it into a successful business–especially when you already have one? “It was a piece…
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7/31/2011: Jahangir and Rokeya Kabir, owners of Well Foods Plus, have been getting a lesson on how to fight for their livelihood. Their landlord, Jim…
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