2004-10-16
HUMAN CONDITIONS
What does a homeless man carry with him? Hardly anything |
Then again, it is the most important set of belongings in the world |
We owe a debt to Moyra Peralta for both sharing her poignant images and bringing the netherworld of the disenfranchised souls she consorts with closer to our own | Chances are strong that few homeless people would so openly bare their most private selves to strangers | And far too many of us would never stop to ask | Two worlds, walking past one another every day, one world ~ fragile and spare ~ seen only in periphery, forgotten after walking on | The other ~ constantly thrust in their faces ~brash, uncaring and unrelenting | Thank you, Moyra for your work |
Then again, it is the most important set of belongings in the world |
We owe a debt to Moyra Peralta for both sharing her poignant images and bringing the netherworld of the disenfranchised souls she consorts with closer to our own | Chances are strong that few homeless people would so openly bare their most private selves to strangers | And far too many of us would never stop to ask | Two worlds, walking past one another every day, one world ~ fragile and spare ~ seen only in periphery, forgotten after walking on | The other ~ constantly thrust in their faces ~brash, uncaring and unrelenting | Thank you, Moyra for your work |
pix credit © 2004 | Moyra Peralta | Take the time to visit her website A Near Invisibility |
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