Absence

Absence

For this series I focused on homeless people and how unimportant they are to most of us. We see them everywhere in D.C. and we usually just ignore them as if they aren't even there. We treat them as if they are nothing, like they are invisible. I actually went to D.C. and photographed people interacting with homeless people (who were not happy to get their picture taken). Well, there was really no interaction at all. Everyone just walked right passed them, most without even looking at them. Some people even looked scared of them. Although I am guilty of this myself, I wanted to do a piece for these "invisible people". I wanted to draw the viewers' attention to them instead of away from them. I made only what we see visible, their clothes, their signs, and their cups for donations. We never notice the actual person behind these things.