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Feb 9
I really enjoyed the chainlink photo, very symbolic.
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Feb 9
I guess you have not been to Oregon. Portland and Eugene are the only real urban areas and Eugene is a stretch.
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Feb 8
This is an awesome project...keep up the good work.
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Feb 8
I live in the Southern Oregon area. Alot of the pics are along the bike path. It runs from Central Point to Ashland. It ia a great place to walk or ride, but it is also kinda scary. Some of the people that live along it are not nice, and will try to hurt you. But for the most part its ok.
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Feb 8
The greatness of a culture can be measured by how they help the most disenfranchised of them. If people truly cared we could help alot of these people, regardless of what country we are speaking about.
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Feb 8
I want to know the story behind the shot of the lorel ad. It hints at something more than the other photos do.
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Feb 8
those are snapshots, not photographs.
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Feb 8
Who bought the cameras???? Although the pictures are great why not put that money to a better use for them?
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Feb 8
The people who are taking these pictures clearly have very little interest in documenting homeless life. Neither are they making profound artistic statements using imagery as metaphor. BUT it is a fascinating look at what a particular group of people finds beautiful and/or interesting. Many of you seem to be focused so hard on the "homeless" element that you forget that they are people just like everyone else. This is the risk of the ultra-lib "Noble Savage" ideal. Maybe they feel lonely because too many people think of them as something other than human.
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Feb 8
FYI, the same thing has also been done here: http://www.vajraenterprises.com/hcp.htm
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Feb 8
The people who are taking these pictures clearly have very little interest in documenting homeless life. Neither are they making profound artistic statements using imagery as metaphor. BUT it is a fascinating look at what a particular group of people finds beautiful and/or interesting. Many of you seem to be focused so hard on the "homeless" element that you forget that they are people just like everyone else. This is the risk of the ultra-lib "Noble Savage" ideal. Maybe they feel lonely because too many people think of them as something other than human.
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Feb 8
nice pictures dude. take care
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Feb 8
you think ray can see this on the net being homeless and all?
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Feb 8
you think ray can see this on the net being homeless and all?
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Feb 8
awesome dog glasses
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Feb 8
When I was on the streets it wasnt my fault. I lived underneath the bridge. I used to hate it when the top sprung a leak. Me and the animals would be trapped. About had to live off of grass.
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Feb 8
you think ray can see this on the net being homeless and all?
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Feb 8
where does YouR garbage go? away? NO! its all here somewhere, even recycling takes petro.
nuff with that. Nancy, your pictures are amazing. the ability to capture a moment as a subject is amazing. the "off track"/"on track" shots are thought provoking. just a few feet to one side and life looks similar, recognizeable
aspects but your orientaion to everything changes.
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Feb 8
Our sheer lack of acceptance for what is... Everyone thinking that they themselves are meant to be more and that everyone else could or should be more.
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Feb 8
I completely understand the desire to stop participating in life as we, the workforce, know it. I sometimes think that the homeless demonstrate far more intelligence and guts than the rest of us. Keep going with the project. At the very least it seems to be creating a great venue for all of us to express our prejudices. Exposure is everything...
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Feb 8
Kudos to the last poster. Our own sentimentality and lack of experience in this realm is worth noting. Not to mention the self held dignity of any individual, no matter what position in life.
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Feb 8
Kudos to the last poster. Our own sentimentality and lack of experience in this realm is worth noting. Not to mention the self held dignity of any individual, no matter what position in life.
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Feb 8
Kudos to the last poster. Our own sentimentality and lack of experience in this realm is worth noting. Not to mention the self held dignity of any individual, no matter what position in life.
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Feb 8
I love this idea, thank you. I know many people who are homeless by choice who love it (most call them "homeless", we call them "travelers",) and many that are homeless against their will who hate it. No one should judge. And the photos are beautiful.
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Feb 8
FYI, the same thing has also been done here: http://www.vajraenterprises.com/hcp.htm
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Feb 8
Has anybody posting ACTUALLY TALKED to a homeless person?
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Feb 8
Troy should ... well go away
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Feb 8
I see some of the older homeless people and its sometimes easy to see the lives they lived before simply by looking at them. The warn, scarred hands, the permanent limps and arched backs of the former laborers. Its hard to see someone who has worked so hard all their life end up homeless. The young homeless people I have little sympathy for. They knew when they chose their particular lifestyle what was waiting ahead and they chose that path anyway. They made their beds now they can lay in them.
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Feb 8
Great idea :) Loved the results.
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Feb 8
if you really want to help, stop "giving them a couple of bucks" and they will stop their behavior. giving a junkie heroin is not a cure, it is a treatment.
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Feb 8
Ignoring the troll posts, these photos are brilliant.
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Feb 8
The day may come when this is considered luxury....
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Feb 8
I love the homeless.
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Feb 8
A large percentage of the homeless poopulation are chemically addicted, have no insurance, no opportunities to turn their lives around, and have given up and accepted that way of life. As far as getting a job, would YOU hire someone who hadnt bathed in weeks or months? Or was drunk/high? Or possibly mentally disturbed? And even if you were kind hearted enough to take a chance and hire them, how would you contact them to let them know they had gotten the job? No phone/address. They are not lazy people who just dont want to work, they are unfortunate souls that have fallen through the cracks of our biased and overly politically correct social services system that hands a immigrant with 6 babies anything they want, so they can continue feeding off our taxes and spewing out more babies to suck the welfare system dry, but a working age white american who just needs a little help to get back on his feet and become a CONTRIBUTING member of society, is on his own.
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Feb 7
Awesome job. More power to ya!!!!
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Feb 7
Some folks believe anything...some believe nothing. Most of us believe we are capable of doing SOMETHING to keep from being homeless.
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Feb 7
Call them "urban outdoorsmen" instead of "homeless" so maybe the bed-wetting liberals will have another "less offensive" term to use, the no account, wastes-of-space.
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Feb 7
Some folks believe anything...some believe nothing. Most of us believe we are capable of doing SOMETHING to keep from being homeless.
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Feb 7
Human bean?
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Feb 7
I like the one of the girl flashing her gang sign. Nice.
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Feb 7
Pretty much every vacant lot looks like that around here, that probly is not a campsite.
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Feb 7
Interesting to see a Homeless guy with cigarettes and a cell phone....equals montrhly apartment rent?
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Feb 7
RE: "Mar 9, 2007
You dont do them any help by includung pics of trashy camps"
--- they are her photos.
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Feb 7
The storage sign behind the person in the second to last pic says it all for these people. "We have room for you"...
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Feb 7
Great site. I have done work with the homeless before, and I can connect with these pictures. I have written about this site in my blog, http://johnsuniverse.blogspot.com/
Keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing additional photos in the future. Good Luck!
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Feb 7
I like the river creek one,the rest I seen before on my own walks,people need to get out of their houses more,and breathe the fresh air if they think these are masterpieces.---Good Job Reader,I like the perspectives,D
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Feb 7
If it was taken by the person holding the camera, it should be on the site. If you pick and choose what they take pictures of, then it degrades the value of the project as a whole.
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Feb 7
Good Tob Ray,a good Variety,by the way are you tapping Blondie,I seen a hut with a pink backpack.
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Feb 7
Haha! The old man pic is funny!
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Feb 7
Haha! The old man pic is funny!
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