This meant that I had to think of a new 'in' to photographing how the homeless of Manchester were living day to day, to connect to Riis' 'how the other half lives'.
One day, while I was out looking for some of the old faces that I knew from photographing the Oxford Road camp before Christmas, I spotted Joanne who I had previously photographed. While speaking to her, she told me that Jaro 'Jaroslaw Edward Bochenek' who was the harmonica player that I photographed and recorded playing before christmas had passed away in his sleep on her friends sofa. She said that they were putting a small funeral together for him and to send her the photo's and recording that I had taken so it could be played at his funeral.
As you can see below, I found Joanne on Facebook and sent her the pictures and recording, although she has yet to reply.
After we finished talking about Jaro, I began asking her where she was staying now and what had happened to the other people who used to live at the Oxford Road camp. She was now staying at her sisters house, she hadn't heard from Aaron, and said that the others were now staying in a new camp under a bridge near some of the University of Manchester buildings. We then organised that the next day she would take me to where this new camp was so that I could begin photographing their tents in the new technique that I was practising, and also she would take me too the house that Jaro died in, which would've been perfect because I could carry on my work which focuses on how homeless people are always on the move and are never in one place long enough to call it 'home' before being moved on again.
Unfortunately the next day came and Joanne was know where to be seen, this meant that again I had another set back in my project which I had to overcome. This one was particularly annoying because I knew that if Joanne had been there, the shoot that I would've been able to do would have been really interesting for my project. Sadly, the problem with my project is that it naturally has a lot of set backs because to gain access to peoples temporary 'homes' and their hidden lives means you need to gain a lot of trust and then at the last moment there is always a lot of different variables that can let you down.
I hope that with me being persistent, one day soon I will come across people that I have previously met to capture where they are living now. If that doesn't work, I'm going to have to find a new approach to my project.