In Unguarded Moments, Defendants Spill Their Stories and Strike a Pose.

The Manhattan Criminal Court building has featured a long parade of marquee malefactors, like Robert E. Chambers Jr. or Remy Ma, whose misdeeds have been exhaustively reported by the city's newspapers and radio and television stations. But relatively little attention is paid to the supporting cast, who number in the tens of thousands. So for the last few months Steven Hirsch, a freelance newspaper photographer, has been photographing and interviewing some of the unheralded defendants who pass through the court system and posting the results on a Web page, http://courthouseconfessions.blogspot.com. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]