Finding Grace ─ The Face of America's Homeless

An amateur photographer from the age of 10, Lynn Blodgett studied under Andrew Eccles, a renowned photographer who was selected by The New York Times to shoot the cover of their millennium issue. Blodgett is also a businessman with a social conscience who travels the country as head of the nation’s largest provider of computer-based services to state and local governments. He does extensive fundraising across the country, with the funds going to benefit local homeless shelters and projects. During his travels over the last few years, he began keeping a photographic journal of the homeless people he met, along with their stories, in every city he visited. The result is this powerful collection of words and images that show how people who go through life ignored and reviled manage to endure, often with grace and humanity, the grimmest of life’s circumstances.

Lynn Blodgett is President and CEO of ACS, a Fortune 500 company where he has worked for over ten years. Blodgett attended Bringham Young University and Utah Technical College. An amateur photographer since the age of ten, and now a master falconer, Blodgett first pursued photography seriously to capture these magnificent birds in flight. Blodgett was tutored and mentored in photography, including the homeless series, by renowned photo editor Laurie Kratochvil and the New York-based photographer Andrew Eccles, whom he met at the Sante Fe workshops. Andrew Eccles was selected by the New York Times to shoot the cover of this millenium time capsule issue.