Photographs From a Homeless Kid

Those something awful goons are usually up to something awfully interesting.  Recently one of them received a roll of film from a homeless kid.  Here’s the story…

A few years ago, I gave a camera and some film to a homeless kid I had befriended while visiting some family in San Luis Obispo CA. He had been thrown out of his parents house for drugs a month ago, and been crashing with friends, generally bumming around the central coast since then. After giving him a brief lesson in the use of a manual camera (it was this beat up old Fujica 35mm), I asked him to shoot all the film, then mail it back to me. In exchange, I’d let him keep the camera. I didn’t expect to hear from him again, but the kid seemed interested in photography, and he didn’t have much else going for him, so I gave him the camera and the film.

Check out the photos on the something awful forum.