Photographing The Homeless

ByMike Schaffner

The CBS News program, “Sunday Morning”, had a great story this past Sunday (Nov. 29th). It’s about 20-year-old Canadian photographer Leah Denbok who has been photographing homeless people since she was 15. She’s really quite good. Her portraits are hauntingly beautiful and really give a face to the homeless who we often treat as invisible. …

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Man Waiting (1980)

ByMike Schaffner

When I decided to start blogging about photography and my images, I wasn’t sure where to start. And then I remembered the old cliché “Start at the beginning”. So here goes. This photo represents a number of “firsts” for me. It was first photo that I thought had the potential to be something worthwhile when…