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When Did I See You Hungry?
by Gerard Thomas Straub
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When Did I See You Hungry? is a photographic and textual meditation on the plight of the poor, telling the poignant, heartbreaking story of the homeless and poor while challenging and encouraging us to respond to the hungry among us.

Drawn by the values and example of St. Francis of Assisi, filmmaker and author Gerard Straub spent months living among the poor of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, Toronto, Rome, Nairobi, Brazil, India, the Philippines, and Jamaica. "Armed only with a pen and a 35-mm camera," he listened to their stories, photographing the men, women and children who live desperate lives of poverty and hunger.

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From The San Damiano Foundation Eloquently narrated by Martin Sheen, this film paints a bleak, yet hopeful, picture of global poverty through a disquieting series of black and white photographs taken in the horrific slums of India, Kenya, Jamaica, Brazil and The Philippines. Photographs from the film have been featured in the New York Times and the LA Times. It is San Damiano's best selling film and most compelling title. A recently updated version of the film includes chapter points and English/Spanish subtitles. (c)2002, 37 MIN.

"A beautiful and wrenching meditation on the poor…comprised of
Straub's 250 striking and very intimate black-and-white photographs
and his compelling words."

-Helene Slesserav-Jamir, Sojourners Magazine

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