URBAN CAVE (2007-2014, published 2015) A seven-year documentary on unsheltered men and women living “down under”. Since 1986, informal settlements have existed in the area where I photographed, despite the no tolerance methods used to economically cleanse the area of it’s homeless. For years the Tunnel, the Whitehouse and The Batcave were safe havens. Now that time is over. The beauty of place of people was real…and it was a brutal life. Most if not all of the women and some of the men had been raped. Most if not all of them, beaten. They are at high risk of malnutrition, of overdose, of food and drug poisoning. Psychosocial disabilities are common. All of them have PTSD. Other then in jail, Mentally ill people on the street were receiving their primary care from the mentally ill people on the street. Nothing is simple in the shadows.
