Author Ty Allan Jackson was the first person photographed for the series.
Photo provided by Barbara Schmick
A week before Christmas, Schmick posted photos of Wynn, clad in his holiday police suit â Santa badge and all â smiling, posing in Springside Park. The week before that, she had photographed author and Pittsfield resident Ty Allan Jackson in front of a graffiti wall along train tracks in Pittsfield.
"When I was photographing [Wynn], he mentioned the series 'Humans of New York' [a photography project started by Brandon Stanton in 2010]," Schmick said in a phone interview. "I thought, 'Oh, that's an interesting idea.' And I created my own People of Pittsfield project."