This was my first public art project. I hired thirty-three people without a home to let me photograph them where they slept at night, and again after they had been made over to look ready to work. I called it Naming the Homeless because the idea was that if we knew their names we might appreciate them as our neighbors. I interviewed the participants about their careers and what they hoped to do in the future and wrote it on the mats of their "Before" pictures. I hung the photographs in the nave of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco at Christmas time. 50,000 people visited the church that season and saw the images. There was television coverage and there were newspaper reports. Eight of the participants in Naming the Homeless got jobs.

I was invited to have the show at Yale University and they had me give a talk. The governor of Connecticut came and he invited the show and me to the State Capitol in Hartford. Then the show came to City Hall in San Francisco.