HoMie StreetView

Overview

Melbourne-based non-profit social enterprise and clothing label HoMie has been working tirelessly to create opportunity for the city's homeless contingent since it crowdfunded its way to a bricks-and-mortar clothing store in Melbourne Central back in 2015. Now located on Brunswick Street in Fitzroy, HoMie has embarked on a new effort to halt the social disappearance of the city's homeless. HoMie founders Marcus Crook, Nick Pearce and Robert Gillies have curated HoMie StreetView, a photographic exhibition featuring the work of local homeless artists.

Supported by Vinomofo and local charity St Mary's House of Welcome, the project saw disposable cameras given to seven homeless Melburnians to help them capture their everyday experiences on the streets. The resulting photographs are on display at Collingwood's Besser Space this weekend. All of the works are for sale too, with money going to the artists, via St. Mary's House of Welcome. Just call it art with heart.