Most of them just had one too many spots of bad luck to many to remain in a home, and many of them will, perhaps with a little help, struggle back up into the ranks of the barely housed. Until then they live in shelters, clapped out RVs, minivans, tents, or when they can, with a friend.
They are largely invisible, unless you notice them stepping through the doorway of one of the many organizations that try to offer them the help they need to make that desperate lunge back up the socio-economic ladder, into the ranks of the not-homeless.
What up with the pics?
ReplyDeleteThey're just sitting there, you know. Being rectangles of light and dark, I guess. Have you asked them?
DeleteWhat are they meant to show? Something to do with the essay?
DeleteYes, these are in a sense documentary photographs of the marginal people, who are homeless but not visible (unless you go looking for them) portrayed in what I fancy is an allegory of how we actually see them, their living spaces, their possessions: out of focus, distant, partial.
DeleteOK, thanks for explaining that. "out of focus, distant, partial" covers a whole spectrum of meaningless 'art' photography.
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