Photography Essay: Journey of the Homeless

Shrimp

Hey, been a while since I've posted here, anyways...

This week I did a photo-essay as part of a college assignment. We had to use images to describe a journey of any sort. I decided to asked a homeless guy if it'd he wouldn't mind being interviewed and if I could take some photos of him and the surroundings as we were talking. He was very obliging.

Here's a link to the youtube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5m2PUfc7Sk

Thanks for reading.

Morlar

I just watched it without sound and thought it was pretty good. The pictures went very well together too and were processed just right. The tone of it was spot on for the subject matter imo. One minor point was a spelling mistake on the text toward the end where it says 'prefere' instead of prefer.

digitalage

Well done good photo essay, well put together. The only minor problem is that, I thought the interviewer mumbled just a little as I did'nt here the questions clearly, apart form that it was very good.

Roen

Thought it was fantastic, I don't have the nerve to approach ppl in the street.
Well done.

FreeAnd..

Excellent piece shrimp, the production was very good but the guy Andrew made it. I am not sure about the photography in it though but that could be the compressed quality on youtube so its hard to really tell. It would be great to see the set on their own. All in all though an insightful piece from a journalistic point of view rather than a photographic. As for the mumbling, I wasnt sure if questions were being asked or if that was just background noise..

Shrimp

Thanks for the comments guys.. i know.. gotta fix that typo later.

Any of the mumbling is probably just background noise, we were in a cafe.. and I was using the video recorder feature on my phone to record him seaking. I think the sound has also suffered as a result of the youtube compression.

I'll be posting up some of the photos as a set later maybe. Thanks for the comments.

Fajitas!

Youssef, ask to use the audio editing machines up here in media to get rid of the background noise. I can give you a hand if you want.

Will give it a look later, don't have headphones with me at the moment!

trilo

I was really impressed with that Shrimp.

What's really great about this is the fact that you let one individual who is homeless, been in and out of prison have their say. That is what is important here.
Your title is Journey of the Homeless, it's a bit vague and really IMO, in a way stigmatsing. Its implying that all those who are homeless experience what this person is experiencing. Prison to the streets and back again in time for Christmas. Maybe it could be made more personalised.

In saying that well done. I'd be well proud of myself if i did that.

sineadw

Its a really great piece. I have a good friend in a hostel at the moment - he started out in that santa maria place..

Powerful stuff.

Shrimp

it's still been tweaked so i might change to title slightly.

Thanks for the comments.. al, i would but the deadline is up now, but if i'm doin one again i'd ive that a shot. sounds good.

Fajitas!

No worries! Ye know where we are if ye want!

DadaKopf

I thought this was very good. The photos look casual, honest - maybe a bit tentative, but it's good work. My only gripe is (probably because of the length of the interview), the photos change too quickly, so it's hard to concentrate on them. Not saying they have to go really slowly. But maybe, I wonder, whether more variety of the timings in the right places might add an extra dimension to the meaning of the photographs.

Shrimp

We were given a timelimit on the film, I wanted to give most images equal time so thats kinda why they might seems a littlle fast. I've learned loads about making a photo-essay by doing this.

Thanks for watching it guys.

skye

Great work - very moving. Well done.