John Trainer #1 by Juliana Beasley

Frieda 2 by Juliana Beasley

We have received a wide range of submissions and Juliana Beasely’s photographs demonstrate another variety in the way images can be taken. In these images, she got to know certain people that are overlooked on some basis by the mainstream: the poor, the elderly, the mentally ill, alcoholics, or drug addicts. A blurb from her statement:

For me, this project confronts various levels of marginalization. There is, first of all, a geographic marginalization insofar as all of this takes place on a peninsula at the far-flung edge of the city where the fog rolls over the beaches. Secondly, there is the social marginalization, the fact that the subjects are poor, physically or mentally challenged, and otherwise living far outside the mainstream, virtually invisible. Finally, and most importantly perhaps, there is the interior marginalization, a loneliness that I attempted to capture in the portraits, a sense of personal isolation that is often exacerbated by or results in alcoholism or drug addiction.

We’ve got less than a week until the deadline. Keep them coming!

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