Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina Your image and comments are interesting. I am half way through a project on food banks here, which are a relatively new need in the UK caused primarily by a radical change in political climate. The thing which is becoming obvious is that the people using them are people which until maybe 2 years ago were perfectly able to manage on their incomes, but with housing prices rocketing skywards and a severe tightening of the lending markets and a severe change in social support leaving people without incomes for weeks on end there is an ever-increasing desperation in working class groups. Many are just about hanging on by their fingertips, thanks often to the charities which are helping them and to the understanding of many social-housing providers. We are now in a situation where rented accommodation is beyond the financial reach of many, but loans for home purchase are very, very tightly controlled now. May I suggest that is what you are seeing on the streets of cities like New York, but one step further down the line. Keep taking the pictures, they will one day be our social history. Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 > On 21 Jun 2015, at 21:18, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > PESO: > > I don't normally photograph homeless people but we noticed something really > strange about all of the homeless people on the streets of NYC. For one > thing, since our last trip, two years ago, the number of homeless people > has increased at least 10 fold. They seem to be organized and all have > very similar cardboard signs. They have an enormous number of possessions > - almost too many to be manageable - and they seem very well-fed. > > http://www.pbase.com/image/160496031 > > I'm not sure what is going on, but the situation has really changed in two > years. > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information