Gerald and John Beckett are known as Pete and Repeat, the two hobo brothers of Parkersburg, West Virginia. They’re 71 and 73-year-old retired nomads with identical hunched stances and scruffy white facial hair. They dress exactly the same as each other every day, walk along the highway for hours at a time with seemingly no destination, and are either virtuous Appalachian sages or completely bat-shit crazy.
Posts Tagged ‘homelessness’
Isolation, a film by Stuart Griffiths
Our friend Stuart Griffiths – who brought us an amazing photo story back in our Fear Issue, as well as this more recent slice of grim reality – has made a film with Luke Seomore and Joe Bull that is being shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Stuart, an ex-para, found himself homeless after leaving the army, a fate he shared with a quarter of all British ex-soldiers. Read more »
