Homeless man with hood, San Francisco, January 2006
Homeless drifter “you can call me Jams.” When asked where he’s from, “everywhere’s Rome to me.”
I was complaining about the lighting, and he said that’s ridiculous; the lighting was perfect for a portrait. he said he was once a photographer of some sort, but it was difficult to pin him down on anything.
Speaking with him a few days ago (late Jan 06), his name’s actually Thaddeus.
About Jack VarnellJack Varnell is a writer, poet, photographer and social media addict living in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. He is a regular contributor at various online publications, and EmotionalOrphan.Net is his personal poetry, writing, art and video blog. You can find his first book, a collection of broadside poems,"The Lexicon Of The Orphanage" there. He can be found on Twitter, @jackvarnell and LinkedIn.
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It’s very sad that all of these homeless men are neglected by society and men make up the vast majority of homeless neglected by government programs.
What are good men doing about it besides taking pictures?
I hope I’m not feeding the trolls here, but on the off chance your question is genuine, Bad Man, I’ll tell you what I do:
I raise money for homeless NGOs and charities locally, participate in events like Cardboard Box City (see my article about that here on GMP), help host homeless families, and help steer homeless people into shelters and treatment programs, and teach my children to do the same, and I pray for homeless people everywhere.
Tell us about what you do.
Thanks for this piece. “To my thinking, the original human trauma is our separation. We are too close not to need each other; and too far to trust each other. We rely on dubious senses and clever devices to interact; but we are alone in our thoughts. Lonely, insecure and uncertain; we pair, we group, we associate. We try to belong and we seek to exclude. We form bonds by geography, religion, economy and otherwise. But it is all precarious. We come together and we drive apart.” Love it.
Jack, Tom: this is a wonderful photo essay that I’m very proud to see here on GMP. Thanks for sharing the images and stories with us.
Thanks Todd. I am proud of this piece. Tom Stone is the embodiment of the GMP ethos, and troll bait or not a nerve gets struck, and my involvement gets called into question. I get the choice to do something or not. That is the highest call for an artist like Tom. Awareness is the first step. Then the discussion, and action, or not. GMP exists for those very reasons, and I can only hope to ask, discuss, and answer those questions in myself through that awareness. The world is not always beautiful, but there is beauty in the ugliest places…I wholeheartedly stand behind my opening paragraph. I have to live with that. GMP does a fine job of that too.
Haunting. It is difficult to look at these photos and not see your own humanity reflected back at you in the eyes, not knowing that luck, a few particular people, a few particular choices here and there are all that separate you. Strip away the clothes, the hair, the skin, the body and what you have is another human soul reminding you that we are, collectively, one and the same.
Carla- Exactly. EXACTLY.