Talking with real people

http://vimeo.com/16183435 - listen to video here.

So disappointed that sound quality is so poor and she didn’t want to film her… Basically I interviewed a homeless woman. Not sure if record is too distracting to listen to it properly, but I’ll write what I found out. I met this woman next to St John’s church in Waterloo. She was sitting on a ground with a blanket on and had a dog besides her. She stays there in a day time and sleeps by the Waterloo bridge tunnel in a night time. Her name is Louise, 32. Didn’t get along with mum well so run away from home being a teenager. As I mentioned about Waterloo bullring as it used to be called, she said she used to live there. (I felt very excited about that, as I knew it will be so useful to me. Later on I shown few pictures from my research- she knew half of the people and even found her sister and uncle). So she lived there till the end- later they all tried to keep it open but they still had to leave. They tried to send them hostels but they didn’t want to- I asked didn’t you like in there- she said that its aright, but you have to be back at certain times and they don’t allow the dogs.
While they were living at Waterloo tunnel, they all had their own little personal spaces and dogs to keep a company, although there was many people being beaten up.
I shown pictures to her of my research. She said she missed it and they all been like one big family. Most of the people she knew is dead now and some of them is in hospitals/hostels.
-he’s dead now…she’s dead now…
Most of her family is in Ireland, while she’s on the streets for 15 years. Got two chidren, one of them is 17 years old. Keeps in contact with them but refuses to meet as she’s too embarrassed for them to see her is such a state.

Dead now.

Dead now.

Girl in the middle- Louise's sister, guy at the end on the right hand side with hat- her uncle.

Oh, also I asked the guy at Pimlico station, who looked familiar in photos to me. He said it's not him, but suggested to go to Big Issue office just over the vauxhall bridge, there will be more people who knows better. I'll know where to go next time!