I am a painter and only bought a camera to take photographs of the homeless I see. One day as I was sitting in front of a store, eating, a homeless man across from me had tears in his eyes.
It so overwhelmed me, I left my camera on the bench and never bought another.
"THE BONES OF THE HOMELESS WILL RISE TO HAUNT THOSE THAT HAD CLOSED EYES"
When I moved to San Francisco, seeing people eating out of garbage cans and dying on the cold concrete streets made me sit down and weep. I watched as people walked by, pretending not to see their Mother, Father, Sister and Brothers in each soul crying for help. I prayed with my heart, soul, mind, body and spirit to die before ever, ever accepting fellow beings eating out of garbage cans and dying from our neglect. I asked to be guided to open hearts thru sharing what I see. ....jjones
"End Homelessness Now!"---inside Lady of Peace Cathedral in downtown honolulu (184 Bishop Street) during prayer ceremony among walkers before the final stretch to State capitol.
Check out:
'The Judy Joy Jones Show at:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Judy-Joy-Jones-Show
Music
'Bones of the Homeless' spoken word/music cd by Judy Jones
http://www.judyjonesbonesofthehomeless.com
'Ode to Janis Joplin' spoken word/music cd by Judy Jones
http://www.odetojanisjoplinbyjudyjones.com
Movies
HOMELESSNESS...
Television
EVERYONE DESERVES A HOME....
Books
You can find my book;
'The Bones of the Homeless' by Judy Joy Jones at:
AMAZON.COM
BARNES & NOBLE,
BORDERS BOOKS
Heroes
Harriet Tubman
Mother Teresa
Meria Heller
Terry Messman
About me:
'The Bones of the Homeless' book with my photographs
and words are simply my small part in joining hearts
and hands with all peoples helping make homelessness, history.
I am a freelance photojournalist and have chosen
to spend my life shedding light on the plight of
the poor dying in increasing numbers all over the earth.
It is dedicated to Mother Teresa, Terry Messman
and Meria Heller.
links:
http://www.bonesofthehomelessbyjudyjones.com
http://www.ontheroadwithjudy.com
http://www.bonesofthehomeless.com
http://www.odetojanisjoplinbyjudyjones.com
http://www.judyjonesbonesofthehomeless.com
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Judy-Joy-Jones-Show
http://www.blessedmotherteresabyjudyjones.com
http://www.zazzle.com/creationbliss/products
http://...com/3x7ulz
Judy Jones is an artist, photographer, poet and librettist, having won "Brava for Women in the Arts" contest with an opera libretto based on the life of the artist Frida Kahlo. She wrote for the Coronado Journal Newspaper as she traveled around the world doing volunteer work with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charities.
Her photographs and paintings manifest a deep love and compassion for humanity and are shown worldwide. While the stark black and white photographs of the homeless from her book 'Bones of the Homeless' are (as Borders Books says of her poetry) "urgent, lively, and often haunting," her paintings such as Janis Joplin and Mother Teresa portrait are full of emotion, color and movement, delving into the spirit, and the human experience of her subject.
Bones for the Homeless and Ode to Janis Joplin, Judy's spoken word/music CD was recorded by Curtis Ohlson, Ray Charles bass player and is for sale at Amazon.com, Cody's Books, Moes Books, Berkeley and Amoeba Records both in San Francisco's Haight/Asbury area and on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.
The Street Spirit newspaper in Berkeley publishes her poems regularly
and her homeless photographs have been published around the world including England's The Big Issue magazine and are hanging in the San Francisco Night Ministry and have been in the San Francisco Coalition for the Homeless.
"Many times I have published a 'Judy Jones' poem on the front page of my 'Berkeley Street Spirit' because her poems help reveal the realities of homelessness at a depth surpassing many of our news articles on the same subject."
----Terry Messman; editor Street Spirit
"Meet an artist who spends her life making the world a better place; Judy Jones. Her calling is making people aware of the homeless among us. Her photography and book is excellent; her CD which is spoken word is excellent also."
---Meria Heller: The Mouth that Roars! www.meria.net
"Judy Jones's writing touches the deepest inner part of your humanness and spirit, and you will never be the same after reading the depths of struggle, the reality of life, the touching voice of truth. It will shock you, move you to tears, and hopefully social action. It will remove one from one's comfort zone, and cause them to review life, meaning, and existence. 'The Bones of the Homeless' is a gift of genius which everyone should read, taste, feel and act upon. If you feel any love in your heart, and can relate to your inner spirit; 'The Bones of the Homeless' is a must book! A million stars!"
----A'isha Rafeeq; author, mother; social activist
http://www.bonesofthehomeless.com
http://www.bonesofthehomeless.com/photoshomelesbyjjones.htm
Who I'd like to meet: All peoples on earth joining hearts and hands making homelessness history!
One day in time, every man, woman and child will have food, shelter, clothing and proper medical care, of this I am certain. We can all bring make it happen!!
