The homeless street artist. Bath, UK [Explore]

This man (unofficially) sells sketches of the city on the street. The sign by him says: "Lost my wife to cancer, lost my home to pandemic and depression. Any work or help?"

I got chatting to him, and discovered his name is Aaron and he is originally from Australia. Like many Aussies, he seems to have travelled a lot, but his accent has now dimmed from I guess all the time over here.

I asked him if he were "roofless" and he smiled in an enigmatic way and told me what a "ruthless" world it was out there on the streets and even in the homeless hostels. A deep-thinking sensitive fellow, it had evidently impacted him greatly. He said he longed for a home.

He told me he had also been homeless in London as well as Bristol and found Bath a far harder place to be in because people did not abide by the street code here. He mused it may be because of the rich foreign tourist pickings there are in Bath that brings the wrong ones here but didn't really know for sure.

His sign said he had lost his wife to cancer, and I asked whether that was really true or just part of the tourist speel to get sympathy donations. He said it was true and then told me their love story. It was very sad. They both met at points of need, and supported each other in a hard and tough world, but because of her alcohol issues, docs didn't take her illness seriously and so did not diagnose her and treat her until it was too late.

So ... meet Aaron. I have more pics of him including of his drawings but I wanted to introduce him first.

---

THIS IS STRANGER NUMBER #05 in my 100 strangers project collection. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page

----

There is now a candid of him with his art here: www.flickr.com/photos/sophiethesax/52720049394/in/photost...

There is also another candid here: flickr.com/photos/sophiethesax/52720203250/in/dateposted/

----

Taken in: UK / England / Bath (show map)

Taken on: February 28, 2023

Tags:

bath

street

man

portrait

streetportrait

beard

homeless

streetpeople

glasses

spectacles

artist

smile

sonrisa

poverty

sad « less

Sets appears in: • Street Portrait • Somerset more » • 100 strangers • Bath, UK • Homeless • Street and candid « less

Groups appears in: • Picturing the MALE • Homeless more » • Somerset • STRANGERS! • Homeless people all around the world • Homeless People • 100 Strangers • Boys, Boys, Boys! • ! 90+ Faves (P1,A+F3) • Homeless Britain • as beautiful as you want • Bath - Street Life • THE FACE UK [The cult of a Magazine] • The Inspired Eye • 30,000 Views Unlimited 30000 • 40,000 Views Unlimited 40000 • in explore • AATV Elite Level - 30000+ (P1- C3) No SL • Great Portraits (10th.Year) • Freedom Spirit • Wonderful Stranger • not too old to rock'n'roll, not too young to blues • 300+ Favorites - Post 1, Comment & Fave 2 • 7 up • Hit for 6 • 1 Only 1 • Eyes of March Two • Views 40000 - 41000 (No 30/60 Limit) • ! LMF 4000+ views (P1/C3) • ! with people -in colour! • What is the Story? • people renmen hito « less

Stats: 43,276 views / 192 comments

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder