Interview with Leah den Bok for Woodstein Media Podcast ep 29 Humanizing the Homeless

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In February, I explored the streets of Philadelphia, and the Mutter Museum was a must-see site.
One of the exhibits, Unhoused: Personal Stories and Public Health, features photos by the guest on this podcast, Leah den Bok. She is a photographer from Ontario, whom I wrote about years ago when she spoke at a United Way event, Faces of Homelessness. I was intrigued by the opportunity to see her photography and a mural by another artist, Willie Baronet, raising awareness about people experiencing homelessness.
Her Humanizing the Homeless series of photos and the accompanying stories do a lot to share the personal stories of people who live unhoused. The images have also been collected in a series of books entitled Nowhere to Call Home, which raise money for several charities that do frontline work on the streets of communities across Ontario to help people experiencing homelessness.
She speaks about her experiences documenting the lives of people who are living unhoused, what she has learned through those experiences, and how, although a lack of affordable housing is the main factor leaving people homeless, more needs to be done than simply giving people homes to help solve the homelessness crisis.
For more information about Leah den Bok and Humanizing the Homeless visit www.Leahdenbok.com and www.humanizingthehomeless.org
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Man, I remember when she started taking photographs. She was just a kid.