Identity Kit Series

How then is the antipathy to the descriptive photograph to be overcome, in relation to the depiction of street-homelessness? With the Identity Kit series shown here, I have attempted to portray the gross poverty of the dispossessed by inviting some of the homeless men on London's streets to display their belongings - those carried in their pockets, or in a bag. The individuals' participation in the arrangement of their possessions, and their willingness to lay them open for external scrutiny, is a statement from the heart of their perilous and impecunious position. (As one young man, Darren, stated: These are all my worldly goods.)

Richard G: Busking spoons (for `ham and egg-ing'*), diary, passport, roll up, matches, tobacco, cigarette papers, allowance
book, medical prescription, DSS letter, penknife, photograph, paper tissues, 21 pence. (*begging)

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