I think I have answered it already (no), but I’ll lay it out anyway.
I was digging through boxes of slides last night, looking for stuff to scan that doesn’t suxxor, and I found a box of images I took at Cafe 458, a restaurant in Atlanta for the homeless. At the time, it was a place for homeless men and women to enjoy the simple dignity of choice, of being waited on, as patrons. It seems to have moved on a bit, now offering weekend brunch for all comers.
At the time — this would be 1992 or so — I went in and talked with the folks who ran it and took some pictures. I later talked about doing some more work with them, but they decided it was counter to their mission of allowing these otherwise marginalized folks to just be themselves. They didn’t ask to be everyone’s social work thesis, after all. So I left it at that.
Now I find I have this stuff, fragments of a couple of rolls of images, color slides — I didn’t do black & white for some reason, else I might have found them sooner — and my first thought was to scan them in and make a Flickr set out of them, a little documentary exercise to go with my Women’s House project (I found some color images of that as well).
But on further examination, I think I’m obligated to keep them out of the public eye. I may scan them in and see what they look like. Maybe there’s nothing there. If I did upload them, I’d have to let the folks at Samaritan House know and give them an opportunity to use them, and then keep them in the friends and family area.
Agree? Disagree?