Many of us wake up to a daily routine of brushing our teeth, showering, making breakfast and carrying out to our normal lives. Some however, struggle just to get by and that is the reason why I wanted to make a post this week about the low and non-income class on our streets of Las Vegas. I wanted to explore this topic because I am exposed regularly to seeing these people walk out on our streets. This got me thinking to take a look at this a little more deeply and seriously. I chose people at random and some of the shots were taken from my buddy’s car(not because I was scared to get closer, but for the possibility of explaining my reasoning for these pictures). I did take some though without some seeing me around 3 o’ clock this past week. I used my Ipod 4g touch pretending like I was listening to music while walking by for the closer shots. As I was coming close to my minimum amount of pictures I begin to feel sympathy of how some of these people have to live day in and day out. What I feel is my best photo at the top of my blog post is the man standing at one the cheapest possible stores in town and that is the notorious 99 cent store where the man was begging for money so he can buy himself some water. I saw many people riding bicycles around the town and got only to pick up a photo of a used bike that we would see in a typical dumpster.
A powerful image was the picture overlooking a tunnel on Flamingo and Swenson. I have read and heard stories that many of these low income and homeless men, women and even children call home. The short video takes us to the world of the tunnels that is available below. So next time when you get out your bed count your blessings and never forget those who have it worse.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpawlas/sets/72157626900792259/
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/las-vegas-strip-home-homeless/story?id=8652139
