Homeless - Vintage Photograph

Photographer - Brian Harris. The Night Hostel - Taunton. Georgina is a waif. At 31 looking 16 looking 50 she arrived at the Night Hostel homeless and loveless. Twice married and many times beaten, the last time with a kitchen chopping block. A baby, dead. She is confused and lost. "I've lost everything I've got to start again." She is below the bottom rung. Her face is bloodied due to scratching spots caused by her nervous fragmented condition. She says she has "an over-active mind and just wants to work... Oh I don't know - I'd like to be a ballerina or a singer or something." Something is what she is not. She is now with the tramps, the dossers, and down and very much outs. The cider and meths drinkers. The walkers. The aimless. After I had made some pictures she put some make-up on. She smudged it. She looked in a mirror and was terrified by her own vision. David, the night hostel warden sees the souls in at 8 PM. They come with a piece of paper from the D.H.S.S. Allowing them to stay for a specified number of nights at £5.50 a time. They get a bed normally sharing a room, dinner - fish fingers - cabbage - boiled potatoes - and rhubarb crumble for pudding - and breakfast before being asked to leave during the day.

Dimensions: 30.4 x 41.1 cm

IMS SKU: SCAN-IND-02952913

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