The top image is one I took during our trip to Reading Terminal in center city Philadelphia, the image on the bottom is a photo taken from the blog of Chuck Ferris. capturing the homeless or impoverished people of urban America is an old and stylistic theme in photography. I am drawn to this niche for two specific reasons, the first is that the images almost always have a documentary element too them as if they were a visual analogy of what is truly wrong with the country and the suffering we have all around us. The second, is that despite their limited resources, every portrait is profoundly unique. This is the artistic element to the style, as if every homeless man or woman was a moving collage of struggle, resourcefulness, and grit, all prefaced with a mysterious air of substance... as if they were inviting us to ask them, "how did you end up here"?
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