Max Whittaker

Recent work: Tarp Nation

As the economic recession deepens in the US, tent cities are cropping up providing shelter to the expanding homeless class.

A tent city for the homeless sits in the shadow of high-rise casinos in downtown Reno, Nevada October 6, 2008.
   
Marian Schamp takes a break from moving her possessions as a tent city for the homeless in downtown Reno, Nevada is consolidated on October 6, 2008.
   
Barbara Lehman sits in the tent she calls home in a tent city for the homeless in downtown Reno, Nevada October 6, 2008. Lehman lost her job in July after a broken arm left her unable to work.