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DIVISION STREET

DIVISION STREET

  • Authors: By (author) undefined
  • Publishers: DEWI LEWIS
  • Date of Publication: 2022-02-01
  • Availability: Available
  • Pages: 144
  • 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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