Susan's (alias) Story Portland's Homeless The Crossing Borders Project

Rosie's Story Portland's Homeless The Crossing Borders Project

Lauren's Story Portland's Homeless The Crossing Borders Project

Teri's story Keep Portland Weird

Rachel S Story Portland's Homeless

Another story from the Crossing Borders Project - Portland's Homeless Project!  Rachel S. tells her story of her healing process from homelessness.  Enjoy.  And remember if you helped fund this project, you must contact me for your "reward"!  Thank you

Rachel S Story Portland's Homeless

Another story from the Crossing Borders Project - Portland's Homeless Project!  Rachel S. tells her story of her healing process from homelessness.  Enjoy.  And remember if you helped fund this project, you must contact me for your "reward"!  Thank you

Tara's Story Portland's Homeless-The Crossing Borders Project

A new Crossing Borders Project story from Tara in the Portland's Homeless project in Portland, Oregon.

She tells of her struggles of healing from homeless to walking a new path in life.  These are her images and words.  Enjoy!  Thank you for the support on Kickstarter and remember, if you want images as your reward for support, you must contact me!

The Crossing Borders Project: Jamie Portland Homeless 2013

The Crossing Borders Project: Jimm Portland Homeless

The Crossing Borders Project: Jonathan Portland Homeless

The Crossing Borders Project: Justin Portland Homeless

The Crossing Borders Project: Michael Portland Homeless

The Crossing Borders Project: Portland Homeless Collective Men (+playlist)

Kickstarter: Portland's Homeless Shepherd's Door Fourth Roll

Hello!
We are all finished with the images from the workshops!  Whoopie.  The Portland Rescue Mission had three rolls and a few women from the Shepherd's Door had four rolls.  The next step is to generate short films of each story and group representation.  Below are the results for the forth roll in order of three each:  Laura: Rachel B: Tara and Teri!

Portland Shepherd's Door: Third Roll

The images turned out real well for this roll and everyone stayed on track!

Here are some selected images from the third roll in order by three:

Laura
Rachel B
Rachel L
Rachel S
Susan
Tara
Teri

Portland's Homeless: Roll Two Images Shepherd's Door

Here are some of the images from the second roll from the women at the Shepherd's Door.

The workshop has been moving well and everyone is starting to understand the limits of using film over digital!  We must wait to see the images and thus everyone needs to think about what they are taking pictures of.  The world of film is just about lost but for this workshop it is important.  We can't see the image right away and make the decision to delete of keep it.  Everyone is limited to 27 images, the light and the results.

Working with the street homeless on a project such as this does has its risks of people either taking the camera and not coming back or moving on to another city.  I decided to work with the two shelters to reduce the risk of transient behavior so we can do the series of workshops and develop stories.  Unfortunately, nothing is guaranteed and Lauren decided to leave the shelter so she will no longer be participating in the workshop.  We are sorry to see her go.

Here are three from each participant for roll two in this order: (And yes, their real names are Rachel!)
Laura
Rachel B
Rachel L
Rachel S
Susan
Tara
Teri