TITLE: Keeping the Peace

An older homeless man keeps back the crowd of other homeless as they swarm to get soda being distributed by the volunteers.

AUTHOR: Nick Wilkerson (United States)

I am a documentary photographer in my senior year at SIU Carbondale. I am from Freeburg, IL and a majority of my work is based around the St. Louis area. I am passionate about the homeless in the city I call home, and I try to create stories to inform the public of these people that have been forgotten in my photographs. I shoot a variety of mediums from a fuji 16x7 camera, my Pentax 6x7, or a Sony a7ii. Film is one of my favorite things to use and i enjoy being in a darkroom. I shoot predominantly black and white.