Faces of the Homeless: A Photo Essay
Posted on January 15, 2009 - Filed Under People |
Homeless in Bangladesh
Photo Credit: Md.Saiful Aziz Shamseer
Homeless and Cold
Photo Credit: Bob Jagendorf
Homeless in Atlanta
This gentleman told the photographer that he had been out in the storm the previous night.
I ran as fast as I could; dove into the front of Rays in The City for some cover from all the breaking glass.
Photo Credit: erokCom™
Homeless in Canada
Photo Credit: Wayne Ray
Homeless in Mumbai, India
Could this be someone’s grandmother?
Photo Credit: babasteve
Homeless in Krakow, Poland
He said he is homeless for last 12 years and an alcoholic too and that he used to be a commando.
Photo Credit: Lukasz Dunikowski
Disabled and Homeless
This photo was titled “Bettler.” His name? Sadly, we don’t know but he gave the photographer his permission to take his picture and to publish it so it could be that he also told him his name. I prefer to think of him as Mr. Bettler rather than just another nameless, homeless man on any street in America.
Photo Credit: Matthias Sebulke
Street Sleeper
This woman slept in Rockefeller Center’s subway station from 2001 to 2006. She has not been seen sleeping there since sometime in 2006.
Did she die?
We don’t know about her but we do know that 54 homeless people died last year in Salt Lake County, Utah. “This year’s roll call included nine women. Eric Timberlake was the youngest on the list; the oldest were 71. The average age was 49.”
Photo Credit: David Shankbone
On a New York Pier
This photo was taken during the Great Depression on a New York pier.
Homeless - Fatherless
A young victim of war in 1967. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose. - The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Public Domain Image
Homeless in Portugal
Photo Credit: pedrosimoes7
Homeless Boy - Uman, Ukraine
Photo Credit: Rooslan Odessa
Homeless in Rome
Photo Credit: Alessandro Zangrilli
Homeless in Germany
Photo Credit: Heptagon
Homeless in Paris
Photo Credit: Eric Pouhier
Homeless in Jerusalem
Homelessness does not discriminate. Young or old, man or woman, any ethnicity; around the world, in any city or town. It can happen to anyone. It could happen to you or someone you love.
Photo Credit: Creap
Homeless in New York 2008
The photographer’s thoughts:
On any given night in USA, anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million people are homeless. United States government is currently spending at the rate of approximately $1 trillion per year for all defense-related purposes. Why can’t be poverty their enemy?
“Lip Service Won’t Help NYC’s Homeless Crisis. There are more than 36,000 homeless people in New York and 16,000 are children… In the wake of the severe recession, homelessness is soaring and the Bloomberg administration is boasting of how well the system is working.”
Photo Credit: JMSuarez
Homeless Veteran - New York
The photographer wonders if this veteran might be thinking, “I love my country… but does my country love me?”
Photo Credit: JMSuarez
Homeless Vet - Atlanta, Georgia
The photographer talked to this man for awhile and learned that someone spit in his face one day, when he asked for a cup of coffee. The photographer bought him some food and this American veteran said (paraphrasing), “It’s people like you that make me keep on going, try to get out of the situation I’m in.”
One man spits in the face of someone who served our country. Another offers him food and drink. Which one are you?
From the US Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs:
Current population estimates suggest that about 154,000 veterans (male and female) are homeless on any given night and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year. Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.
Photo Credit: erokCom™
Homeless Family in the 1800s
Do you think the scene depicted above can’t happen today? Guess again.
From the National Alliance to End Homelessness:
Homelessness among families is all too common in the United States. On any given night, 248,500 persons in families are homeless.
Public Domain Image/Photographer: Giorgio Conrad
Dennis Kucinich:
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
Tags: Homeless, PeopleWhere, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
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im homless with 10 children me and my roomate. we have been in our home without power since june 2009. I lost my job last year and have not found a new one yet.I LaWanda Bradford have a 4yr old daughter who had heart surgery @2 yrs old who needs a home with power and heat. We are looking for any assistance from any someone or group of people to help us find jobs and a place to live comfortable.The children are from 18 to 4 yrs of age.Weare reaching out across the world for any help.contact me @770-882-4638