In much of his work Titarenko is commenting on the Communist regime as an oppressive system that converts citizens into mere signs. I think this comment is mostly shown through his project the 'City of Shadows', which is arguably his most famous collection of work.
In 'City of Shadows', he wants to show links between the past and present while also commenting on the general living condition of the public within the Soviet Union between 1992-1994. I think these images are very good symbols of showing how Titarenko felt that the Soviet Union didn't have the publics interests in their minds, this is shown through his long exposure images which capture the subject as motion blurs and not a static, 'important', figure. Furthermore I believe the images show how everyone was just trying to get by under the hash conditions of the Soviet Union, due to their being masses of people completing the same journey within the frames. Other images in this series focus on smaller amounts of subjects but they still have the same amounts of blur, meaning no identifiable features are captured, which creates a very illusive and unsettling feeling.
Titarenko's work has really made me think about how I could represent homeless people without actually capturing their faces. If I use Titarenko's techniques of long shutter speeds, it means that I still will be capturing the subject without showing their features and thus safe guarding their privacy. This technique if done well could also represent how they are always moving and never settled due to them not having a home and needing to be on the move all the time, this effect should also be increased if I manage to compose public roads in the background so one will be able to see the blur of the public going past the homeless camps, to represent how they are never static but always left behind.
I think this method should keep my pictures looking original and interesting, instead of looking like just another photograph of a homeless person, which is exactly what I don't want them to look like. And this technique is a good place to start, to get my project rolling again in a different way to how I photographed it before.