What I Keep: Photographs of the New Face of Homelessness and Poverty
Автор:Susan Mullally Год: 2010 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 94 ISBN: 1602583161 In What I Keep Susan Mullally presents an unforgettable photographic study of twenty-first century poverty -- one that transcends class and race, profession and talent. A compassionate visual survey, these portraits capture the individuals who gather on Sunday mornings at a nondenominational, multicultural church that has been meeting below an Interstate overpass for sixteen years. Those who attend Waco, Texas's Church Under the Bridge have experienced periods of homelessness or incarceration, addiction to drugs or alcohol, mental illness, or profound poverty and, almost always, deep periods of hopelessness. Yet from the homeless carpenter with four college degrees and the children's counselor to a former state tennis champion and a mayoral candidate, the portraits that fill the pages of this book display their subjects with dignity and respect. In these photographs, each member holds one personal item -- the one item that he or she keeps while struggling to survive....
