Deep End Photo Gallery

These artworks are from people with lived experience of unstable housing and homelessness, shared as part of the Deep End Living project.

This photovoice project involved consumers with a lived experience of homelessness. We asked them what it is like to access healthcare when you are homeless and they shared these images and words with us.

For more information, please contact the Deep End Living Lab team by email nilakshi.gunatillaka@monash.edu

You can find out more about the Deep End Living Lab project here.

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“The [original] photo is of the 1st Hospital I attended for emergency assistance that was at the forefront of my experience of being without a home. It has 1 x brightly coloured bollard and 3 x decorative bollards … but it is not dramatic enough to make the picture speak a million words.

[I’ve] overlayed [the entrance] with [more] bollards … to show how emotionally difficult it was to physically walk through the door for a consultation or treatment, not only from the feeling of rejection and judgement but also to from the service fatigue of attending so many, so frequently with very little results if any.”

“I was homeless and living on the San Remo foreshore. This is how I felt when I was trying to keep my stoma clean … in the public toilets along the beach.”

“Finding health services to meet my needs was often clouded by my mental and physical stat[e] at the time and where I was staying as I did not [k]no[w] how long I would be there. The questions was not asked how am I doing. Although support is there, knowing where it is and feeling safe to approach are two different things. I felt I was sinking, and I didn't feel connected until I found a place I could call home. Social Housing provided that.”