DIVISION STREET
DIVISION STREET
A story of lives lived on tough streets, amidst wealth
stunning and empty promises, told through photos, texts
found and first-person accounts. In 2016, the Super Bowl arrived
In San Francisco, homeless people were "encouraged" to move onto the streets
Division, ironically named, where, city officials hoped, they
would be "invisible." In the midst of unlimited wealth and consumption
During this "super" week, the homeless lived their lives, crammed into their
tents or sleeping on the ground. There were no facilities, no
promise of permanent housing has not been made. Division Street is where
This project was started and from which it takes its name. The voices of the homeless are part
integral part of this project. The first-person narration, the messages
left on the street, media headlines and characterizations of
Politicians make Division Street a collaboration between many
communities. Division Street, through photographs and words, becomes
a metaphor for the “division” of communities, between the richness of
a few and the consumption capacity of the majority, in San
Francisco, in the United States and around the world
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