Homeless awareness vlog: Invisible people
Posted by Marc | 15-11-2008 21:55 | Category: Homelessness, Media, Poverty
Mark from invisible people on Vimeo.
“I once heard a story about a homeless man on Hollywood Blvd who really thought he was invisible. But one a day kid handed the man a Christian pamphlet. The homeless guy was shocked and amazed, “what! You can see me? How can you see me? I’m invisible!”
Invisible People is a great and heartbreaking new project. It is a videoblog (vlog) made by Mark Horvath and it is about homelessness in the USA. Mark, a homeless person sixteen years ago, makes in your face portraits of homeless people, raw and unedited. The purpose of the vlog is to make the invisible visible.
In our eyes the homeless are invisable because it’s so much easier to simply close our eyes and and shield our hearts to their existence.
Invisible People: “Some content may be offensive. We hope you’ll get angry enough to do something.”
The video above portraits Mark, his story how he became homeless and how he struggle with daily life.
See also Mark Horvath blog Hardly Normal.
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