ok, so i decided 2 use this week 2 see if i could actually get any photos of street people. b4 i submit my proposal/intention, i need 2 see if my objective is actually achievable.
so sunday morning i ventured out 2 st.lawrence market area. there are parks in the churches around there where i might find appropriate subjects.
in st. james park @ jarvis and king, there were lots of normal people and a few sleeping homeless. there were one or 2 street people. i walked by some of them a few times but didn’t have the nerve 2 go talk.
i went 4 coffee instead. on the way 2 coffee walked by the biagio italian restaurant and took some pics. maybe i might want 2 do architecture.
after coffee. i walked up to moss park. lots of street people. but in groups. a bit intimidating. i approached a lone person and started chatting.
henry from guyana. fave food is raw nuts and ripe bananas. just wants a plot of land to cultivate and grow his own food. believes in god, that gods son was with him cause he needed help to create the world. and believes that god is a spirit and that’s why you cant see him. henry didn’t want his picture taken cause he fears there are a lot of people out to get him. asked if he could live with me. i politely declined. he said maybe next time he’d let me take his picture.
now i was starting 2 feel like this might not work. went 2 eaton centre 2 have lunch and reasses my strategy. after lunch thought i’d check trinity square. u never know. there i found george. he grew up in toronto in foster homes. has 6 brothers and 6 sisters. comments were very rude. calls himself Native Canadian. i asked what was in his bags but he never answered.
