June 7, 2025: A Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
Every year, I try to photograph Sherry Walles on her birthday, on May 26th, at the same spot at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas, This year, I was sick on Sherry’s birthday, so we moved our photo date to early June. Sherry, a familiar face in the downtown unhoused community, has been living for several months at a women’s shelter.
April 2025: Cody Cottrell on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas. Cody suffered frostbite on his feet in winter 2024, and he ultimately lost his legs to amputation because of infection.
February 2025: Portrait of Heather on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
March 2025: Maggie Lechinger on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
March 2025: Portrait of Pam “Cookie” Hutchins on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
April 2025: Friends Daniel “Hobbit” Fowler, left, and Cody “Transom” Cottrell on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
February 2025: Austin police officers pull pedestrian fencing into place on a Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
Teresa Mears with her partner, Richard Fondville, when they were living in Richard’s van in Austin, Texas. Teresa was in Richard’s arms when she died of cancer in her hospital room on November 13, 2022.
June 2020: Benjamin Lewis with his 1987 Volvo 240 station wagon on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
March 2025: Ventriloquist @jakelouiecomedy on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
April 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
March 2024: Ananessia Reese and Gew Butler on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
October 2024: Portrait of Art Randle on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
January 2025: Angela on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
April 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
Downtown Austin, Texas, March 2025: Laurie Parkhurst and her husband, Stephen Tucker, are living in their car with their dogs Rose, Molly, and Stitch.
August 2024: Portrait of Cierra Jones on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
June 2025: Portrait of Hope on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
July 2024: Portrait of Ralph Lee on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
April 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
February 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
November 2024: Portrait of Eddie Decay on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
December 2024: Portrait of Cat Fako on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
November 2025: Zackery “Leprechaun” Gardner on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
April 2025: Aurora Wells on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
February 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
April 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
July 2024: Portrait of Derek on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
April 2025: David Taylor and Colin Langner on Sixth Street in downtown Austin, Texas.
February 2025: Saturday night on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
The late Teresa Mears, a longtime member of the Austin homeless community. She died of cancer on November 13, 2022.
February 2025: Flash mob on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
Stacy Brooks, a 47-year-old mother of seven from Amarillo, was living in a homeless camp near downtown Austin in February 2024.
In February 2021, Hobbit Fowler somehow survived on his own, outside, during Winter Storm Uri.
Jermaine Watson, Sixth Street, downtown Austin.
From left, Cat Fako, photographer Camille Wheeler, and Hobbit Fowler on Sixth Street in downtown Austin during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020.
February 2021: Teri Klima and her dog, Billy Jo, during Winter Storm Uri in Austin.
Denver pushes Tony Noble across Sixth Street in downtown Austin. Formerly unhoused, Denver is now a staunch advocate for the homeless population.
Friends Maggie Lechinger, left, and Leah Draper on Sixth Street in downtown Austin.
Since this day in downtown Austin in February 2016, David Watkins has continued to find his way in the city’s homeless community. At present, he is availing himself of the network of services offered at the Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center.
Sixth Street portrait: Tommy.
Close friends Catherine “Cat” Fako and Cody “Transam” Cottrell are two of the most familiar figures in downtown Austin.
Sixth Street portrait: Josh Steward belongs to the unhoused community in downtown Austin.
Sixth Street portrait: Cody “Transam” Cottrell is a longtime member of the unhoused community in downtown Austin. Before losing his legs to amputation in 2024, Cody had been confined to a wheelchair for several years. He is battling avascular necrosis, a painful disease that results from lack of blood supply to bone tissue and can lead to bone collapse.