Image of Homelessness

For my first blog, I'm making observations on a photograph by Mark Person entitled Image of Homelessness, which can be found in my ENG 101 book titled Seeing & Writing 3 by Donald and Christine McQuade.
The first thing you are sure to notice about this picture is the many cardboard JERZEES (American Active Wear) boxes fitted into each other. You can see the boxes are lying on a sidewalk bench in front of a black metal fence. The brown cardboard boxes are tied at the ends where each box is fitted into the other. The long looking bench seems to be made of wood and looks worn and old from the dents at the end. There's another cardboard box underneath the bench where you can make out a "handle with care". All around the bench I can see four parts of a brown cardboard box, with a tree to the side of the bench. If you look to the back of the photo you notice some part of an intersection with pedestrians walking on the sidewalk. There is a Burger King with bubbly yellow-orange letters just above the windows and door. Leaning on the Burger King is a bicycle. I can see exactly three cars at the intersection. Jumbles of signs are on the side of a brick building. A silver pole runs up from a corner of the intersection shown. Beside the silver pole is a silver fire hydrant. There are exactly four people I can see in this photo. There is a yellow box connected to the long silver pole at the intersection, the one that tells pedestrians when it’s safe to cross the street. If we look back at the many JERZEES boxes fitted together on the bench, we see a white pillow at the end of the ‘tunnel’. Inside the ‘tunnel’ I can also see something pink and something a sort of forest-green color (it looks waterproof).

To relate to this photograph I’m looking at, I have other photos that I think relate to it: