Image by Christine Renney May 2018
Tag: poverty
RESTING PLACE
Image by Christine Renney
NO CRIB FOR A BED
Image by Christine Renney
Curt comes from Birmingham but has been living rough in the Milton Keynes area for five years. What you see is his home – he apologised to me for it being a bit messy. I apologised to him because I have let him down by not shouting louder.
BUDDY, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME (THE ANSWER WAS NO)
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THE LONELY
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This image is not sharp, I know, but then I thought well many of us do not see the homeless and poor – they hover in the periphery of our vision, physical and mental, and so if they are not clear we can ignore them.
TROMPE L’OEIL
Image by Christine Renney
I spotted this in a car park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and it made me smile at the thought of someone just doing this.
THE SOLOIST
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It was a delight to hear him play the violin – a really lovely man whose luck seems to have run out on him. But his smile for the child is heartwarming.
RAPUNZEL
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Basildon Town Centre is dominated by a huge block of flats named Brook House which was originally designed to sell to high-fliers. Over the years they have been used to house those amongst us who, for whatever reasons, are not high-fliers but are forced to be high-rise tenants. There were security guards on the main entrance to the flats so that says something. I managed to take a few images but this lady was the only person I saw, on either side of the tower block which, for England, is huge and cold. Strangely, I spoke to a work colleague about this building and he knows it, being an ex-Basildonian, and at one time had considered buying a flat there for £15,000 – I think that figure says it all as he is only in his early thirties.
AND THE BEST PLACE FOR IT AND EVERY OTHER BANK
Image by Christine Renney, Recession by Greedy Bankers
HOMELESS MAN, BRADFORD
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Same shit, different day.
Spartan Eye 