Margaret Morton—Fragile Dwelling: Homeless Communities of New York City
HKDI had recently invited Margaret Morton to give a guest lecture on Fragile Dwelling — a 45-minute walkthrough of her documentation about the inventive ways in which homeless people in New York City have created not only places to live but also communities that offer a sense of pride, place and individuality.
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Since 1989, Morton has photographed the dwellings that homeless people in New York City have created for themselves. Her project has taken her many unfavoured places yet clustered with homeless people with different cultural backgrounds. Photographs and oral histories from her ongoing project have been published in three books: Fragile Dwelling: Homeless Communities of New York City; The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City; and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives. Morton’s photographs document the transitory |
Morton’s camera reveals the ingenuity of builders who have constructed homes out of discarded materials such as warehouse pallets, junked |
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