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Bruce Gilden’s foreclosure work is essential.  I first wrote about it in April 2009 saying,

‘This Magnum in Motion  audio slideshow is straight out of the bible. It speaks with the zeal of a prophet.

It’s raw.

Damn Bruce Gilden there is electricity and power in your photographs. Nothing has come close to capturing the anger and the loss and the confusion and the betrayal and the despair.’

Gilden’s commitment to telling this important story was evident then. Photography is often so obsessed with shooting junkies, soldiers, beats, lowlifes and homeless people that it sometimes misses those who get more subtly fucked over by the greed that is driving the American Dream.

Gilden says:

Going to Nevada next is key to my project. The place was a mortgage casino, with developments popping up like mirages. Now they have the highest unemployment rate in the country and are caught in an impossible foreclosure spiral. I want to spend three weeks there, photographing and interviewing people touched by foreclosures, similar to what I’ve done in Florida, Michigan, and California. I am absolutely dedicated to tracking this story across the country and making sure people can’t escape what foreclosures actually look like. We can’t let this be swept under the rug or reduced to statistics. Only by showing the human cost is there any hope for systemic change.

You can see my earlier work on foreclosures here and on the Emergency Fund website. I will make this work available to advocacy groups working on the housing crisis.