Taking pictures is a personal expression. I imagine it is a bit personal even if you are taking a standard shot of something like the Washington Monument. What catches your eye has a lot to do with who you are, and there is only one of you.
Libby Kane captured that idea in a December Business Insider story about homeless photographers. Kane reported, “In early June, Jason Storbakken distributed disposable cameras to 10 homeless residents of New York City.
“Storbakken, the director of chapel and compassionate care at The Bowery Mission and author of Radical Spirituality: Repentance, Resistance, Revolution, directed each photographer to capture ‘things they hoped others might see.’ …
“The photos from this project have been curated into a show called ‘Through My Lens,’ which will spend the next year in various locations around New York City. …
“As the photographers returned with their images, Storbakken sat down with them in his office to do some light editing through web editor Picasa and to add their statements to each photo.”
See 17 of the pictures at Business Insider, here. More on the project at OneGlimpse.org.
Photo: Sean Collins
“This was on the subway platform. There is a reggae band in the back singing ‘Three Little Birds.’ The little girl is dancing with her daddy. Watching this interaction gave me a lot of joy.” 
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Hi Suzanne’s Mom, The Waltham Community Day Center serves homeless guests by offering lunch and services such as telephone, computers, counseling, place to receive mail, etc. Here’s a video about their first photo exhibit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZ3ChkSQaA
The second photo exhibit is called “Out in the Cold”; the guests took photos of their living outside during the winter. Contact Director Marilyn Lee-Tom at director@communitydaycenter.org for information about the open house on April 30, 2015, at their new location at 16 Felton Street, Waltham.
Thank you for this information. I hope lots of people see those photos.
Oh, my. What a fascinating idea and the photos are amazing–so humanizing and they provide such insight to the photographers’ lives! I’m really glad you shared this!
I hope to get to the similar show that’s in Waltham, MA, as mentioned in Comments by a reader.