Street Kids

This project was a serious stretch for me being an incredibly introverted and socially inept dude, it took balls for me to talk to these people, let alone photograph them. Overall, they were all very good people though. Warm and kind, just down on their luck. These are the folks nobody likes to look at as they walk down the street and they deserve some serious love. 

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mullitover:

JONATHAN CHERRY: When did you last see the sunrise?

MIKE HEDRICK: This morning.

JC: Are there any emerging artists inspiring you at the moment?

MH: J Wesley Brown.

JC: What is your current project all about?

MH: Whatever I see that speaks to me.

JC: Where are you currently living and how is it shaping you?

MH: Boulder, CO. The beauty of it is devouring my soul. I have to get out and take photos.

JC: One piece of advice to recent photography graduates?

MH: Keep shooting and learn your camera.

JC: Any big plans for 2013?

MH: Maybe a little travel.

JC: Favourite tree?

MH: Pine

I was featured on Mull it Over. 

Sympathy is earned through a measure of struggle, pain, and vulnerability. In showing these things to another person, you show who you are. This is the true you. This is the you only you know who exists when no one else is there. This is the you who, despite closing your eyes, can’t seem to fall asleep at night. In showing this self to another person, you open the door to criticism, to the possibility that the person you’re showing these things to will scoff and laugh in your face, or worse use the things you show them to belittle you and to take you down a notch. Read More at Thought Catalog…
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Sympathy is earned through a measure of struggle, pain, and vulnerability. In showing these things to another person, you show who you are. This is the true you. This is the you only you know who exists when no one else is there. This is the you who, despite closing your eyes, can’t seem to fall asleep at night. In showing this self to another person, you open the door to criticism, to the possibility that the person you’re showing these things to will scoff and laugh in your face, or worse use the things you show them to belittle you and to take you down a notch.

Read More at Thought Catalog…