Just when you do a Favor for a Friend, Everything Goes Wrong

In the city with eight million stories, there was a dark tale of a young Ghanaian emigrant woman looking for adventure in New York because selling fruit in the market in Ghana bored her.

Sheddi Dedzo was a very intelligent woman who learned photography, and happened upon a bodega robbery. She clicked away, and gave her camera to a police detective.

Detective Tanaka caught the criminals because of her pictures, and put her in school to become a real freelance investigative photographer.

She moved in with...