Bronx Boys  (FotoEvidence, 2011) An electronic photo book.

Transforming Lives: Turning Uganda’s Forgotten Children into Leaders. (Star Bright, 2009) Essay: Pete Norman.

The Black Panthers: (Aperture, 2006). Foreword: Bobby Seale. Essay: Charles Jones

Free to Grow (Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 2003) Text: Peter Meyer.

Pursuing the Dream: What Helps Children and Their Families Succeed (Aperture & Family Support America, 1997). Preface: Michael Jordan. Essay: Roger Rosenblatt. Text: Kathy Wolf.

Pursuing the Dream: What Helps Children And Their Families Succeed, funded by The Ford, Robert Wood Johnson, and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations; Kodak and Canon, shows solutions to the problems outlined in Outside the Dream. Family Support America, in collaboration with eight state governments, mounted a multi-year (1998-2002) public education campaign using these photos. The exhibit has gone to 30 sites, was exhibited in the rotundas of three state capitols, and numerous professional conferences including the National Conference of State Legislators. Exhibits were opened by Vice President Gore, First Lady Hillary Clinton, state governors, and mayors.

Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America (Aperture & Children’s Defense Fund, 1991). Introduction by Jonathan Kozol. Afterward by Marian Wright Edelman.

Outside the Dream rivets attention on the more than 13 million children of poverty adrift in our affluent society. Outside the Dream received numerous prizes including the Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism. In1993, this book was sent to every member of Congress, governor, and Fortune 500 CEO by The Ford, Danforth, Charles Stewart Mott Foundations, and the Foundation for Child Development.

The Way Home (Harry Abrams, 1999) Photographs by Stephen Shames, Tipper Gore, Mary Ellen Mark, Annie Liebowitz, etc., Sponsors: National Alliance to End Homelessness & Corcoran Art Gallery.

Homeless in America (Acropolis, 1988) Photographs by Stephen Shames, Mary Ellen Mark, etc. Homeless in America Photographic Project. Sponsors: Tipper Gore, Chair; Barbara Bush, Honorary Patron.

Empower Zone (Aperture & EZ/EC Foundation Consortium, 2000) Photographs by youth photographers living in Empowerment Zones who were mentored by Steve.