Behind the Signs: A Journey through Homelessness

As a society, we’ve developed a number of stereotypes regarding people who are homeless. We often assume that petty crime, substance abuse, laziness, or lack of ambition brings people to homelessness, never stopping to consider what other causes may be involved. Too often the observer assumes a choice in the lives of the homeless, and too frequently the cause of an individual’s poverty is overlooked.

Behind the Signs considers in great detail the reasons why each homeless person depicted in...