Voices Of The Concrete
Powerful Book of Photography on Homelessness in the UK
Discover the devastating reality of homelessness in the UK through the eyes of those who live it every day. This book brings to light the struggles and stories of homeless individuals in Brighton and Bristol through intimate interviews and photos.
Following the success of Voices of the Jungle, the next photography book that I will be focusing is Voices of the concrete, This book will vave the same concept and lay out of the first one but focussing in the growing problematic of people without a home in the United Kingdom.
Homelessness is devastating, dangerous and isolating problem, The average age of death for people experiencing homelessness is 46 for men and 42 for women, People sleeping on the street are almost 17 times more likely to have been victims of violence and more than one in three people sleeping rough have been deliberately hit or kicked or experienced some other form of violence whilst homeless, also Homeless people are over nine times more likely to take their own life than the general population.
There is no national figure for how many people are homeless across the UK. This is because homelessness is recorded differently in each nation, and because many homeless people do not show up in official statistics at all.
Crisis carries out an annual study in response to concerns that many people experiencing homelessness are not being accurately recorded in official statistics. Known as core homelessness, it includes rough sleeping, people living in sheds, garages and other unconventional buildings, sofa surfing, hostels and unsuitable temporary accommodation such as B&Bs.
On any given night, tens of thousands of families and individuals are experiencing the worst forms of homelessness across Great Britain, this includes over 200,000 households in England alone. For the last five years’ core homelessness has been rising year on year in England, reaching a peak just before the pandemic when the numbers of homeless households jumped from 207,600 in 2018 to over 219,000 at the end of 2019. By the end of 2021, 227,000 households across Britain were experiencing the worst forms of homelessness.
I consider this a very important issue, and one that needs to be explored closely from the inside, the idea behind Voices of the concrete is to interview homeless people in Brighton and Bristol where is the majority homeless people lives.
