HUMANITY
"Perhaps the only reason I am so lucky is because of where I was born".
Todd Snyder
Woman from South Sudan.
Man on the steps of St Michan's Church, Dublin, Ireland July 2019
Boy in Refugee Camp. Gambela, Eithiopia December 2019
Refugee Camp 2019
South Sudan Refugee. Jan 2019
Hope Boy, UNHCR
Refugee in İstanbul, 2019
Mykonos Fisherman, July 2019
Girl in Jenki.
Earl, 7 years Skid Row. April 2019
Woman in Bako, Ethiopia.
Man in Addis Ababa
                                                                        Man in Addis Ababa.
Henery, Venice, CA August 2019
                                                                        Woman in Zanzabar, 2019
Man on Skid Row, 12-18
Man at Kings Cross Station, London, July 2019
Hope Street Man.
Man on Hope Street. Nov 24, 2018
Woman on Skid Row
                                                                        Someone's Daughter, barefoot and alone.
                                                                        Meet Abdullah; A Refugee from Mogadishu, Somalia
                                                                        Just a bag, a smoke and purple lipstick
Girl, alone on Skid Row. 10-2018
                                                                        Woman on Skid Row, November 2018
Skid Row. November 22, 2018
                                                                        Man on Longxi Road 龙溪路
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        Awarded International Photo Crowd First Place 2017 Crowd Favorite
                                                                        Survivor of Khmer Rouge Cambodia's Killing Fields
South Sudan, Refugee. UNHCR Camp.
                                                                        
                                                                        Skid Row, November 2018
                                                                        
                                                                        Man on Skid Row.
                                                                        Woman on Skid Row, 11-23-2018
                                                                        Skid Row
                                                                        Skid Row, Oct 2018
                                                                        
                                                                        The PHD, with only a pack of smokes.
                                                                        
                                                                        The Vet
                                                                        
                                                                        The Enn Woman
                                                                        The Vet.
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        Lost her home of 30 years, with no place to go.
Siem Reap, Market Woman.
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        His Home, The Beach.
Honorable discharged
                                                                        
                                                                        From Tucson to LA
1001 Main Street.
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        Lost Everything, and her only request was that I keep it real.
Lost Hope
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        The Teardrop Tattoo
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        She is 19, and no home.
                                                                        Skid Row
                                                                        Home
Hands that pick food from the trash.
                                                                        Los Angeles.
Mrs. Celia
                                                                        
                                                                        Vietnam Vet
"Babby, that was two photos"
She also has two son's without a home.
Woman on Yaowarat Road Bus.
                                                                        Santa Monca, CA
Lost Hope. Without a home, in the rain, and no shoes.
                                                                        Honorable discharged, US Navy.
Honorably Discharged Vet.
                                                                        1 of 58,000 in Los Angeles County
                                                                        Grateful for this meal.
UNHCR Camp. Jan 2019
                                                                        
                                                                        The Vet
Five years on the Street.
8 Years on the streets
                                                                        Phnom Penh Survivor, of Khmer Rouge
                                                                        Midnight Mission
Woman on the edge of the Huangpu River.
                                                                        
                                                                        Man in the Lujiazui district.
                                                                        The Kid
Santa Monica.
                                                                        Skid Row.
                                                                        Malibu, California
                                                                        
                                                                        Skid Row.
                                                                        The Vet.
                                                                        Frank, in down town Los Angeles.
                                                                        Los Angeles, CA
                                                                        Someones Daughter, barefoot and alone. Los Angeles 2018
Addis Merkato. Jan, 2019
Woman in Cambodia
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty." ~ Mother Teresa
ALL OF THE IMAGES on this site are the 2019 © Copyright of Todd Snyder
All Rights Reserved.
Todd Snyder aims to focus and provide spiritual significance to the people who call home to the streets. Each has a unique story, and their story is sometimes forgotten. Each of these wanderers with some being Veterans, has a unique story and set of circumstances. This book project plans on honoring each and providing them with some personal dignity. As most of us forget that each is somebody's child.
In this photographic collection of humanistic portraits
Does society have a responsibility?
In each city across America, they sometimes blend into the crowd. We pass them as they sometimes only have the clothes on their back, as they look for a warm meal, or a place to rest.
The Refugee with no Place to go.
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity. Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, phenomena. Nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself. At work on my Spiritual Iconography.