Formerly homeless photographer Robert Shults recently explained in a Q&A with PDN the ethical and esthetic challenges of photographing homeless people, and how photographers can approach the topic in ways that dignify the subjects and elicit empathy and deeper understanding on the part of viewers.
Photographer Robert Shults, who was once homeless, explains the ethics of photographing homeless people, with good and bad examples of homelessness stories.
Photographer Robert Shults, who was homeless and living on the streets for several months in 2001, explains the ethical challenges of photographing homeless people, and points out good and bad examples of photo projects about them.
In 2001, the photographer Robert Shults was homeless, in Austin, Tex. He took shelter under whatever enclosure or overpass he could find, unsettled by his stellar view of the heavens. Elsewhere in town, a team of scientists was working on a project that would give them answers to some major questions about what was going on up there, millions of miles away.
I spent some time looking at the work of my reviewees prior to meeting with them, and I remember thinking that Robert Shults had an interesting perspective on architecture.
