August 2018

September 4, 2018

Richie Gregg, 43, of Salem, lives with COPD and faces possible eviction from the Salem home where he lives. A case worker from Salem Health is working to find him a new place to live after he is forced to leave. Photographed on Friday, Aug. 10, 2018.

August brought a large installment of homeless stories from the Statesman Journal. I was able to shoot photos and video for all of the three main segments (here, here and here). I think as a newsroom we are gaining the trust of homeless advocates and those they help in Salem. It seems like we are getting a lot more open and vulnerable interviews and visuals the longer we work on stories of homelessness in our community. It is a wonderful feeling. August, of course, also means the fair and back-to-school. Also, I included a couple of shots from our vacation to Crater Lake National Park.

Kathie Dollarhide was homeless, living with mental and physical health concerns and had a history of drug and alcohol abuse before being accepted into the Homeless Rental Assistance Program through the Salem Housing Authority. Photographed in Dollarhide’s West Salem apartment on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018.

Rick Sanchez, 55, is homeless and a dialysis patient at Salem Health. Photographed where Sanchez sleeps near Portland Rd. NE in Salem on Friday, Aug. 3, 2018.

Vicki Morace, left, and her daughter Sharmon Cook-Wright remember their son and brother, respectively, George Cook in Morace’s Salem home on Wednesday, July 18, 2018. George Cook died of exposure in November 2017 after being homeless in Salem for years.

Jon Dutch, with he Rose City Circus, performs on stilts for people on the opening day of the Oregon State Fair in Salem on Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. The fair runs through September 3.

Jeannetta Cook trains to be a bus driver for Salem-Keizer Public Schools in Salem on Monday, Aug. 27, 2018. Classes begin Sept. 4 and 5.

Sunrise at Diamond Lake in Oregon on Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018.

Sunset at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018.