Roofless houses for homeless people

Fotogaleria

These houses are rolled up, crumpled, boxed. These are the roofless houses of homeless people, ‘these are stored belongings that we come across in the streets every day’ and that bear witness to the presence of a homeless person, 22 year old Martin Henrik told P3. ‘Cardboard boxes, blankets, clothes and bags are some of the props that we face as we turn the corner. What I aim to show with this project is that the presence of a homeless person is in fact deeply felt even when the human figure is not in the photographs’. The photographer (this was his end of year project for his first year of his professional photography course with the Instituto Português de Fotografia) captured the various scenarios on the streets of Porto, in the evening to ‘ be able to get an environment with a just the right lighting, capturing the shadows created, the shape of how they are placed, the patterns and the geometrical shapes found around them’.