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“Five camera-toting D.C. residents took to the streets of Washington this month to meet the people who are always there but rarely seen. They’re passed on the way to work, or by the Metro, or in front of a Starbucks. They are the District’s approximately 7,500 homeless people, and they are so familiar around the seat of the nation’s government that they become fixtures instead of human.

Hi Uan Kang Haaga, 32, a photographer, collaborated with Heather Hill and Jaime Colman, two fellow graduates of Houghton College, in New York; Charmaine Runes, research assistant at the Urban Institute; and James Ellis, pastor at Peace Fellowship, to disperse across the city to tell the stories of the city’s homeless. For each of the 29 days of February, they are profiling a person they met, in the style of the popular site “Humans of New York,” and have published one story a day…”