House

Photo taken by me.
Recreation of "The Damm family in their car" next scene.

Mary Ellen Mark created the image "The Damm family in their car (1987)" while spending a week with the family. The Damm family were a homeless family comprising of a mother, a step-father, a brother and sister and their Pit bull.

I used this assignment to fast forward in the week that Mark spent with the family and stopped at a moment in time where Crissy, the daughter, was drawing a house.

The next paragraph is an except from the magazine "Life" and was written by Annie Fadiman.

Crissy draws a picture of a house on a paper bag. There are four faces at the windows and a four-legged figure in front. "Look at my house, Mommy," she says. "We can put furniture in it when we're rich." (http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-031.html)

Original 

By Mary Ellen Mark

The Damm Family in their car