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spent the day with five young people from the 'homeground project' in liverpool.
aaron, alice, phil, lauren and becky.
we walked around some of the places where they had been sleeping rough before they got to the hostel.
all of us taking picture and talking about what it was like to be homeless and how they got there.
very thought provoking day.
you know what they've been through but you don't really know what you've been through till you're standing on the flyover they used to shelter under with the wind howling past you, or you're standing amongst the needles and dried blood, swabs and shit that they used to sleep on.
in one place it felt like we were in a makeshift battlefield hospital there was so much blood and used surgical paraphernalia.
i've been in places like this before but not with a teenager saying 'i used to sleep just there in that corner'
really brought it real.
and this was all in the daylight and sunshine with blue skies.
it's got to be so much worse in the night.
i'm doing days in liverpool, manchester, newcastle and london.
relocated myself to manchester.
stopped at the slaughterhouse studios to catch up with ian.
had a first and last redbull cola (WTF?)
checked into my boutique, luxury hotel feeling guilty.
met up with paul from hasselblad and got taken for a delicious dinner in the fine dining restaurant 'room', feeling guilty.
back at the hotel, watched a film from my deep cast iron bath then settled into my huge, comfy, high cotton thread count bed and slept like a log, forgetting to feel guilty...and waking up in the night feeling guilty again.
the guilt i rightly feel needs to turn into positive action.
this is my plan at least
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