BY KAREN BOSSICK

The homeless will be in the spotlight on Tuesday, Aug. 1, when Anthony Hernandez talks about his new book of photography titled “Forever.”

The free talk will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday at The Community Library in Ketchum.

Hernandez, who will discuss the book with his wife novelist Judith Freeman, took the photographs in downtown Los Angeles and the neighborhoods of Compton, Watts and South Central between 2007 and 2012.

His images are designed to take up the point of view of the homeless person—what can be seen and observed from the street itself.

Unfortunately, he noted, the homeless population has only increased in the 10 years since he started the project.

“I could technically keep photographing this subject, making these kinds of pictures forever,” Hernandez says.

Hernandez’s other projects include “Landscapes for the Homeless,” “Waiting for Los Angeles,” “Pictures for Rome, “Rodeo Drive, 1984” and “Everything,” a book he did on the Los Angeles River Basin.

Hernandez has won a number of prizes, including three National Endowment for the Arts Awards, a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Room and the Higashikawa Prize.

His work is in the permanent collection of the Chicago Art Institute and other museums.