Working with homeless it’s not as simple as I thought. There are many things that people don’t know about them, how they live, how they eat and many other questions that each one of them. Differences make up the homeless people but in a certain way they are all the same. I’m learning a lot from this subject either researching online or going out there on the streets trying to look for them. By taking pictures and looking for places where they live or where they spend their time, what they do it’s the hardest thing, not because it’s hard to find the places but because there is always someone looking at me, and wondering what I’m doing, or when you find a homeless they will give me a dirty look.
Behind the building I work there is a shelter, and every day in the afternoon I see a lot of homeless walking down the streets and standings in front of the store. So I decided to go there to try to take some pictures, but what I found interesting is I thought it would be easy to take pictures of them all in one place, but I got scared most of them were drunk and smoking and giving me a dirty look. So I decided to ask them if it is possible to take a photo of them for my project instead of just taking a photo without their permission. The guys said it was ok so I end it up taking a lot of pictures but the women didn’t want to do it and walked away. One of them told me about his life, I felt bad he lost his family in a car accident and started drinking and end up losing everything he had. He was drunk and before he talked to me I was thinking bad things about him, but right after I felt bad.
Walking at back bay I found a lot of dirt places which brought me to think that homeless stayed there, so I took pictures of that too. On my way to back bay station I always see at least one person sitting or laying down in the entrance, so I figured I would take a picture of that also.
I’m founding really hard to relate the pictures I’m taking with Victor’s story. Since the hardest part of him being homeless was having to deal with his health problem, everything was really inside of his head. Hopefully I will be able to find more places that I can show his life.
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