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Comments regarding Anonymous's photos:
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Mar 3
I fed the homeless once. it was fun and it made me feel good : )
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Mar 3
I wish everyone had a good home and food and warmth. That is important and should be like, free or something.
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Jan 14
how much longer do people have to suffer like this?
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Dec 18
sometimes these photos one to make me cry
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Nov 30
wow thats crazy!!
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Nov 28
I have appreciated seeing the world as this homeless person sees the world. Very insightful!
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Nov 6
These are so sad it's hard to believe people actually live like this. It makes me think of how much I take for granted
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Sep 22
I look at these photos an am inspired. No, they are not all easy to look at but they bring with them an amazing truth. I have traveled to Bolivia, Guatemala and El Salvador and am continually amazed by the strength and outlook on life that many people without shelter carry. I greatly admire them. A life full of "things" brings with it distractions and an inability to experience true peace. Thanks for the photos.
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May 10
I believe that the pics of the trash are meant more as a comparison between Us(the homeless of the valley) and trash in the eyes of normal society. Most of you see us as nomore than a trash pile...I think deep down you know I am right. The landscapes are beautifull and also barren...This is OUR HOME...this is where we get to live. For the most part we are christian and damn proud of it, but we have all been left alone at some point(think of that metaphorically), but what you dont get to see is the connection when you are out there. I have meet almost everyone of the people (not homeless, we are people) shown here, and the photographers to. I just wish you all culd just see the connections...24yrmale...Medford
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May 1
Are you kidding me? These arnt vacation photos. These pictures arn't here to help anyone, theyre here to give us a view through the eyes of a homeless person. Have some compassion. What you call trash is somebodys home. And who are we to complain about trash. Were the ones making it, its not like homeless people are throwing out their old couches and used car tires.
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Mar 26
i like it, it's simple & beautiful. =)
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Mar 20
This site is rad. Kinda makes me depressed though. But I like it anyway. ( :
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Mar 16
I don't understand what you are trying to depict here. Looks like any site while out on a walk.
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Mar 13
REALITY
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Mar 13
I wish I could hear Anonymous tell me about his pictures. What is he trying to show? Is it just "Hey, here's where I spend time and here's who I spend time with."? Or is there something more? I guess his photos leave me thinking, there's got to be more than this.
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Mar 13
wow. although in general i think the photos are interesting, i think the RESPONSES themselves are more telling. thanks.
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Mar 12
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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Mar 12
What makes you think it's a camp? It looks to me like the backyard of your typical lower middle class area, where they keep their old cars on blocks and anything that's broken gets tossed in the backyard to 'fix up later'. I've seen plenty of working, home-owning rednecks with a pile of beer cans the size of a car in their backyard. I've seen plenty of trashed clearings and campsites that were created by drunken teenagers looking for an out-of-the-way place to party. Personally, I'd take these pics as a criticism of the people who have so much they can afford to waste it and yet are so lazy and thoughtless they let their waste clutter the parts of the world that should be free and clean and good. It's rather obscene for someone to have so much and care so little for it, and it would certainly seem more so to someone who had nothing at all.
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Mar 12
Let's see... $1500 for first/last/deposit on an apartment here in Oregon or $5.00 for a six pack. That's why they have beer and no home, ya rocket scientist!
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Mar 12
The day may come when this is considered luxury....
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Mar 12
Beer is cheap.. and sometimes the water that is available to the homeless is less than desireable to drink. In the 'old days' of sailing, sailors had rum not because it was necessarily fun to drink, but because the water supply was so nasty or germ-ridden that drinking rum with water was the only way to survive. Food stamps are not plentiful, as some would have you believe, and healthy food is not cheap. And many homeless people suffer from social or psychotic disorders, preventing them from seeking help at shelters and places where food stamps are available. They aren't just handed out like candy! A person has to have ID, has to be registered, has to have AN ADDRESS! Don't jump on the bandwagon of thought that gee, there's so much available to the homeless because you think there is... put yourself in these people's shoes.
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Mar 12
Should the images be filtered to fit what you would find an acceptable homeless camp. Come on people realize that homeless people are that way for a reason. Whether it be a tragedy in their life, a mental disorder or just the absence of hope. Doesn't it make sense that alcohol would be used to fill this void or to self medicate. Have some compassion without judgment for once!
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Mar 12
Human bean?
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Mar 12
Pretty much every vacant lot looks like that around here, that probly is not a campsite.
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Mar 12
RE: "Mar 9, 2007
You dont do them any help by includung pics of trashy camps"
--- they are her photos.
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Mar 12
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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Mar 12
Nancy, i like your photo's. yeah maybe it is a good Idea to hang a plastic bag
on a bush and learn to use for trash,when full,tie it up and dispose. I'm sure people would analize what I throw away. A friend of a friend lives at the shelter and I had them both over and we had a few beers.I like my freedom,I like to pay my bills and Taxes--and don't really like to work,even though
I'm complimented or considered a good worker---Enuff politics, the pictures were all right,but i think you all could do better photography.
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Mar 12
Reality is sometimes hard to look at.
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Mar 12
Well, since the images appear in a random order, the picture I mentioned is 007-a with the old VW bus.
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Mar 12
Thank you for sharing a part of the world as how you see it. There's something about that first picture that really draws me in.
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Mar 12
To the last commenter, I think it's pretty unfair to judge them based on the fact that they cobble together what money they can for beer. What would you spend it on? Food can be had via any of a hundred thousand charities. Shelter... Well, what shelter? Is he going to spend $50 on a hotel for a night?
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Mar 12
Pictures of trashy camps?! perhaps they should've spiffed up the dirt and cardboard lodgings before snapping a picture which you find uncomfortable. It is this perspective I believe that will not help anyone. Go back to your hole.
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Mar 12
Human bean ? What an insult, no matter if it was intentional or not.
This is what happens when human life is degraded to the point of
being regarded as less worthwhile than a stray dog.
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Mar 12
While you and I might not appreciate the trash strewn around the campsite, the camera was given to the person to take pictures of what they wanted. If that included trash, so be it.
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Mar 12
Both of you need to understand something: that camp site probably wasn't the way Anonymous built it -- likely, it was destroyed by drunken teenagers while she was absent from it, for whatever reason.
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Mar 12
You could also say they don't help themselves by /creating/ trashy camps. Truth is truth, package it however you wish!
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Mar 12
... If I found myself homeless, hell yeah, I'd drink too much.
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Mar 12
I suspect the point of this exercise is to capture the reality of what it's like to be homeless -- whether it lives up to a bourgeois community standard or not. I imagine keeping the camp clean and neat is not that high of a priority when you're homeless. I would also note that I see as bad or worse created by job working home owners when I drive down any US highway.
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Mar 12
"They get food stamps, medical insurance and they know how to work everyone." In order to get food stamps or government subsidized health care you need a street address, which none of these people have, or at the very least a P.O. Box number which few have still. Furthermore, many homeless have no form of ID whatsoever which makes it impossible to obtain anything from the state.
" I know some homeless people that have more than I do and I work." You were on a computer when you wrote this... I don't see a computer in any of these pictures.
"You dont do them any help by includung pics of trashy camps." I don't see how it does them a disservice. Furthermore, much of that trash is likely not there own, and who worries about keeping a tidy camp when you're starving?
I'm not trying to rag on you, I just sort of felt the need to point this out.
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Mar 12
I have seen yards far trashier than the camp depicted earlier, and this site doesn't seem to be designed as a "look at the poor homeless people" kind of site. This is to show that the world still exists through their eyes. The moralizing in the above comments misses the purpose. Our dysfunctional "Capitalist" culture has lent a morality, and worth to the acquisition of money through labour, but that is a cultural idiosyncrasy. Capitalism in it's true sense revolves around CREATION of capital as goods or resources, not currency, and these images are just that. The creation of beautiful consumer goods.
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Mar 12
"You dont do them any help by includung pics of trashy camps."
It seems this project is a documentary on their life. If that is what they choose to depict then we are not to judge that.
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Mar 12
This is reality. Accept it or not, but deleting it from existence is not an option.
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Mar 10
You know......A person's heart really breaks to think of another human bean out in the cold nights with no place to stay and very little to eat and then you see pictures that have beer cans and such thrown all about their camp site. Why is it that we have money for booze and none to get shelter or food. I know some homeless people that have more than I do and I work. They get food stamps, medical insurance and they know how to work everyone. Some may really want to work and some may not. I honestly don't understand.
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