Andrea Gamboa now volunteers at The Refuge, but she came to the organization originally when she was homeless. Now, she takes photographs of some of the nonprofit’s patrons in an effort to ...

Video shows ambush of Bellevue police officers responding to false 911 call Newly-released videos show the moments a man ambushed Bellevue police officers with a knife as they were responding to a ...

On a recent Sunday afternoon, as some of Burlington’s homeless residents filtered through the red door of the First United Methodist Church for a weekly meal, Noni Stuart followed close behind ...

Ludington, Mich. — What compels a former police officer — once tasked with “cleaning up” the homeless situation in downtown Ann Arbor — to devote his time to humanizing and documenting the lives of ...

Painter Thomas Ganter has won the £30,000 BP Portrait Prize with the painting of a homeless man he encountered outside Frankfurt’s Städel museum, the Guardian reports. The artist was struck by the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Homeless man Zy with his new set of false teeth (Photos by Moyra Peralta/Courtesy of Bishopsgate Institute) What always struck me ...

"I have to drink eight fifths in a 24-hour period. If I do not, I go through withdrawal, which is similar to heroine withdrawal." "Let's go to L.A., where there is money and opportunities." I’ve got a ...

PORT ANGELES — The Second Weekend Art Opening at Studio Bob will feature “Invisible Neighbors, Paintings of the Homeless by Daniel Miller.” The free show — for all ages and dog-friendly — also will ...

Artist Damin Lujan had never painted with acrylics or oils until he took a class in partnership with nonprofit Faces of Mankind and an Anaheim emergency shelter. “I was a little afraid of this class.

What always struck me about Moyra Peralta’s photographs was the authentic and joyful connections I could feel between her and the people she captured through her lens. Her images communicate a deeply ...