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About Street roots. (Portland, OR) 1998-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 2009)
Above: On Sundays, their single day off from, selling papers, Melissa and Sean often g oto the Ananda Temple and Teaching Center fo r prayer and meditation. “We literally live on prayer,”says Melissa, who considers herself a Taoist Christian. Above: Into yoga, tai chi and martialarts, Melissa is drawn to. the beauty of their techniques. Also passionate about knitting, Sean and Melissa love the meditative qudlity o f the craft and long to make sweaters now that the leaves are changing. Right: Waiting for her Social Security Disability benefits to be approved, Melissa spends her days dreaming o f bike shopping, shoes that f i t and a trip to the San J u a n Islands. “When you are homeless, you have nothing but time.” Below: After leaving their first apartment, the couplefind themselves at a .■ makeshift homeless shelter on 39 acres, in Cornelius. Tenants are asked to pay $300 per month or do chores to rent a room in a privately owned home. King Scholarship and has been honored by eah Nash is a Portland-based PDN, thè Magenta Foundation, the Eddie photographer with a passion for Adams Workshop and by CPOYi. documenting the everyday and the extreme, which she often finds are one and Her clients include Newsweek, Mother Jones, GEO Magazine, The Fader, The New the same. She holds a master’s degree in York Times, Der Spiegel, Stem , The photoj ournalism from the University of Washington Post and local publications Missouri and in 2004 was awarded a including Street Roots, The Oregonian, Fulbright Grant to photograph the AIDS Oregon Business Magazine and Portland crisis in India. Monthly. Throughout the years, she has received More of her work can be viewed at www. the Marty Forscher Fellowship for LeahNash.com. Humanistic Photography, the NPPA Kit C. B
