More on Invisible People in Chicago
I wrote about the history of Mark Horvath’s Invisible People.tv project and his visit to Chicago in my last post.
ChicagoNow blogger Megan Cottrell followed Horvath around while he was in Chicago and wrote a great account of what it was like to talk to people who are normally invisible.
I didn’t even see her, sitting on the West side of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, but Mark did.
She was young, small, sitting with her orange tabby cat next to one of the bridges tall sculpted posts. Hundreds of people walking by almost blocked out here small, cardboard sign.
We stopped, and Mark knelt beside her. “What’s your name?” he asked. “What’s your story?”
The story is a powerful first-person view of the feelings and thoughts that come up when you confront homelessness head on by hearing the stories of individual homeless people and not numbers about anonymous populations.
It’s hard to know what to do, we both thought. Do you help people individually? I wanted to get Sandra a ticket home, Reggie a warm place to stay and AnnMarie the help she wants and needs.
But helping one person doesn’t seem like enough.
I highly suggest you go read the rest of her story at her blog One Story Up.
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