Photos by Chauncy

SS245

Photography and the Human Condition

            During the time where we had to find photos that would best capture the whole concept of homelessness, I always knew where I wanted to go to get what I wanted. It seems that when you walk around you always see homeless people everywhere. Today was just not that day for some strange reason. It was really cool outside so it seems as if they all found a new place to settle them. I really didn’t want to take photos of the people, but I wanted to take pictures of the place to show the point of view of how a person with no home would see things. Every place that I usually walk by and see people things was displaced and wasn’t there. It was kind of harder than I made it seem. Things like this would take more time and thought in finding what I want people to see from this photo. I then just started to take snap shoots of random places that I would think a person would find shelter to sleep. There was once a group of homeless people in front of the seven eleven in Copley square, but I didn’t really want to capture a photo with people in it. I did get a couple of shoots that I could use and play with to show the contrast of the photo. There were problems with people getting in my photos and I would find myself taking shots over and over again. Everything wasn’t going my way. I just remembered what the speaker we had to say and just thought about things he told us. We really don’t know who is really homeless, but we had to capture something that could give off the impression of a not as obvious picture of a homeless person or bed.