Video: London bums in photos by Rosie Holtom (Rosie Holtom)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Photographer Rosie Holtom for a long time worked as a volunteer in one of the homeless shelters in London. After talking with people who, for various reasons, lost their roof over their heads, she decided to collect a collection of their photographs. The cycle is designed to destroy negative stereotypes homeless people.
The tragedy of homeless people is covered from time to time by contemporary artists. It is enough to recall the portraits of French homeless people and photographs of homeless people from Los Angeles to make sure that these people are quite nice, but in the life of each of them there was a big trouble. Here are the expressive black and white portraits by Rosie Holtom - emotional men and women with good looks.
Rosie Holtom tries to convey the idea that being "homeless" is not a public judgment. It is customary to look down on the homeless, they are often perceived as spoiled people, alcoholics or drug addicts, or even completely crazy. Others forget that each of these people is a person with their own interests, hobbies, talents. Instead, they are blamed only for the lack of their own living space.
The photographer admits that she was forced to start working on this project by the contradiction between the people she had met for several years at the Shelter from the Storm during her volunteer work, and the stereotypes that developed in society. This becomes especially noticeable on the eve of Christmas, a holiday, when happy families are trying to gather at a common table, and these people have nowhere to go.
Rosie Holtom is sure that the mass media circulate too many photographs of suffering people, thereby showing that these people have sunk to the social bottom, that they have practically no opportunity to become a full-fledged part of society again. However, for many, such information only causes rejection, while a project like the one presented by Rosie Holt is likely to cause a positive reaction from the recipient, remind of how important it is not to turn away from people when they need support.
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