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Bryan Meltz is a freelance photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a documentary and portrait photographer and has focused much of her work on long-term projects on social and humanitarian issues. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times since 2012, working on stories ranging from dog training inside a Georgia prison, poverty in the rural south, to a story last year about a senior ice hockey league in Northern California. Her work has also been commissioned by Rolling Stone, The Fader, Time Magazine, Vice, Financial Times and more. She has collaborated with numerous nonprofit organizations which has led to her work in Uganda and a long-term project in Haiti.
In the shadow of Silicon Valley’s booming technology industry, a growing number of people remain out in the cold. Skyrocketing housing prices and an astronomical cost-of-living in America’s hub of innovation have pushed many onto the streets, straining policymakers to find solutions to a homelessness problem that directly, or indirectly, impacts everyone in the community.