A Bunch Of Homeless People Walked Around New York With Disposable Cameras, {IMAGES}

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A Bunch Of Homeless People Walked Around New York With Disposable Cameras, And The Photos They Took Are Striking

In early June, Jason Storbakken distributed disposable cameras to 10 homeless residents of New York City.

Storbakken, the director of chapel and compassionate care at The Bowery Mission and author of "Radical Spirituality: Repentance, Resistance, Revolution," directed each photographer to capture "things they hoped others might see."

Here, Storbakken has allowed us to run 17 photos from the project, along with the photographers' statements.

'Pam'
The photos from this project have been curated into a show called "Through My Lens," which will spend the next year in various locations around New York City.

"That dog always runs up on me. But she's nice. Her name is Pam." – Robert Perry



'Mom'
First, the show will be displayed at the Bowery Mission Fellowship Hall as a counterpart to the Lower East Side Art Drive, a silent auction of professional artwork held next door at the New Museum on Sunday, December 14.

"This reminds me of my mom — the lady leg and the big splotch over the rest of her. She left me when I was two." – Robert Perry



'Bed'
The show is dedicated to Robert Perry, the photographer who took the photo below and the two previous, who was hit and killed by a New York City driver earlier this fall.

"I've been homeless on and off since I was twelve. I never really had a bed. This bed looks beautiful … like a dream. I usually sleep in The Bowery Mission or on a park bench or I take the A train to Far Rockaway and back three times and that gets me some sleep. I’m 57 now." – Robert Perry

[annabanana]

1. Always instructive to view the world

through a new set of eyes.

[Malraiders]

2. Bow legged blue jeans hanging on the wall? How is that

Possible? Starch?

[alfredo]

6. It is how they are hung.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I don't know what moved me the most, the pictures or the narrative that accompanied them.

[daleanime]

5. Both, the photos were often interesting on they own....

but reading the story provided the focus.

[blackspade]

4. Sadly this will all be lost on the 1%

[madville]

8. More like the 90%

Most people drive and walk by the homeless like they are invisible or won't make eye contact with them.

[blackspade]

9. That's true.

And sad.

[Octafish]

7. The richest times in human history and people sleep on the street.

It's not the poor: Those with the means to do something and don't are the ones missing the boat.