An Alternate Life, Help support my project Options

[cmac]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/caseym...a-photo-project

I've started this photo project that I've been interested in since moving here that I'm trying to raise money for. If you can't donate I would appreciate it if you could pass it on to anyone that might be interested. Or even a facebook/twitter post to get the word out would help tremendously.
Thanks everyone for your help.

[cmac]

another reason i feel you are exploiting the homeless is because of the "market angle" you're approaching. every homeless person you come across is guaranteed to be a tragic tale of failure, "almosts" and bad luck. why must it be the homeless you get your stories from?

because this is the target audience i have chosen to learn more about? if i had chosen to learn more about say tenured professors, would this be exploiting professors? this kind of research goes on in graduate schools all across the country with incentives given in return for information. is it just because i have chosen people that have a stereotypical tough time in life that this is controversial?

answer me a question, please. why is a homeless mans story so much more interesting that the average, blue-collar man? do you think they've seen more trouble? been through more? shed more tears, etc? to believe that is the absolute epitomy in arrogance. who is to say that the blue collar man hasn't clawed and bitten and dragged himself through hell to carve out an average living for his family and found a place of success?

i don't know. this is probably the best way to describe this project. these are things i wish to find out. it mind end up the most boring thing ever where they tell me to get lost , or that standing on street corners is their 9-5. i just don't know. maybe they have families that they're struggling to feed. or maybe they have a significant other that makes 6 figures. i'm willing to bet that some of them have traveled the u.s. or at least have been homeless in denver for quite some time. i'm sure they've seen things that might amaze some people. or maybe they haven't. who knows? and of course tons of blue collar people have struggled just as much if not more. i could probably suggest that the homeless took the easy way out while blue collar is struggling to do the "right thing." people are probably much more curious about the homeless though because they can't directly relate to their problems and issues. most people don't know what it's like to sleep under a bridge at night. i want to tell this story.

like i said, knowledge is the main goal of this project. i'm highly curious. secondly, to make something creative. i have much more of an interest in the photography, crafting the language of the story, and designing the pages in the book, than making any money. i'll probably even sell the books at cost. or just have a stack of them on my own coffee table.