These portraits were taken in shelters, soup kitchens, transitional housing, and on city streets. The intent was to record the faces of the homeless, capture their humanity, and show the diverse range of people who become homeless. Photographs were also selected to show the different kinds or stages of homelessness: the recently dislocated and the episodically, as well as the chronically, homeless.
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