Since taking photos at the Ottawa Mission nearly 60 years ago, Crombie McNeill has intermittently taken portraits of the city\u0027s homeless.
“I went there fully expecting the worst possible reception,” he recalls. “I expected these people would be ashamed of themselves, that they wouldn’t want their pictures taken, that they’d tell me to f— off or steal my cameras or something like that.”Crombie McNeill
“It really shocked me because I had all these preconceived ideas about what street people or homeless people were all about.”“It was the humanity of it,” he recalls. “In other words, don’t go at anything with any prejudice or preconceived ideas. Be open and accept things for what they are. And, most of all, be honest and straightforward.Article content
Some of the photos on display were taken almost 20 years ago when McNeill, an Aylmer resident, retired and more earnestly picked up his longtime passion project. Others were taken just last month. Most of the portraits are tightly framed, without much in the way of environmental background.Article content
Simply spreading awareness of the problem of homelessness and the humaneness of his subjects is what drives McNeill’s work, but he admits it’s an uphill battle, with homelessness growing faster than the population in general.
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