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Project Description

Sidewalk Inn® reflects in poetic, yet profound ways on homelessness, a significant urban issue that remains largely unresolved. The photographs and videos have been taken over a period of more than two years, at different times of the day, many in the early hours of the morning. To respect and protect privacy neither faces nor recognizable parts of the body are shown. The project is not about a particular place or city. Rather, the images aim to raise awareness about this important issue by exposing the unsettling anonymity, transparency and objectification of homeless people.

The signs, places and other contextual elements included in the images, even though unplanned add meaning to the narratives. The intentional unexpected beauty of these intense, dramatic and moving images (somewhat reminiscent of Warhol’s Electric Chair series) derived from mesmerizing shapes, powerful colors and startling contrasts, re-directs viewers’ attention from the superficiality of form to the seriousness of content. The visual and semantic contradictions at the core of the project, reflected also in the title, Sidewalk Inn®, aim to further accentuate the harsh realities of homelessness.