Shawn Stanford hauls a cart full of dishes to the banks of the Kennebec River to wash on Aug. 28.
Shawn Stanford, 38, changes his clothes in his tent Aug. 28 at a homeless encampment near the Hathaway Creative Center in the South End of Waterville.
Shawn Stanford and his girlfriend, Amanda Frasier, rest in their tent Sept. 16 as they recover from cotton fever, an illness that develops following the injection of drugs filtered through cotton. "It feels like your bones are ice," Frasier said. "It's so painful. I can't drink water. It's too cold. It hurts."
Shawn Stanford smokes meth in his tent after a day of work on Sept. 6.
Amanda Frasier sifts through a dumpster Sept. 7 behind a store on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville. Frasier would monitor the tent she shared with her boyfriend, Shawn Stanford, at a homeless encampment when he worked. They would often have belongings stolen when they left the tent unattended. When Stanford returned to the camp, Frasier would leave to look for usable items for everyday life.
Shawn Stanford works in the kitchen of a restaurant Sept. 9 in downtown Waterville.
Shawn Stanford works to fix a generator at a homeless encampment Sept. 11 in Waterville.
Shawn Stanford sips water from a fountain Sept. 12 at Head of Falls in Waterville. Stanford and his girlfriend regularly use five-gallon jugs to collect water from the fountain to use for drinking water and cooking at the homeless encampment where they have lived for months.
Shawn Stanford hauls a wagon of five-gallon water jugs back to a homeless encampment Sept. 12. The encampment was on the island in the Kennebec River in the South End of Waterville.
Amanda Frasier smokes meth Sept. 14 in her tent at a homeless encampment in Waterville as she grapples with cotton fever, an illness from using intravenous drugs.
Shawn Stanford works in the kitchen of a restaurant Sept. 17 in downtown Waterville. The wages he earns are not enough to secure housing so Stanford lives with his girlfriend at a homeless encampment near downtown.
Amanda Frasier becomes emotional Sept. 22 as she grapples with life in a tent at a homeless encampment in the South End of Waterville.
Shawn Stanford builds a fire Oct. 10 near the door to the tent he shares with his girlfriend, Amanda Frasier, at a homeless encampment in Waterville.
Shawn Stanford airs out his foot Oct. 14 after spending the night contending with floodwaters near a homeless encampment where he lives on an island in the Kennebec River near the Hathaway Creative Center in the South End of Waterville.
Shawn Stanford walks on a trail Oct. 14 that connects an island on the Kennebec River to the South End in Waterville just below the Hathaway Creative Center. Stanford and others living in a homeless encampment were forced to relocate on the island because of floodwaters.
Shawn Stanford wipes his brow Nov. 14 as he works at a restaurant in downtown Waterville.
Shawn Stanford emerges from his tent Nov. 16 as the first snow of the season covers a homeless encampment below the Hathaway Creative Center in the South End of Waterville.
A Waterville police officer arrests Amanda Frasier on Nov. 29 on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court. They are seen at her tent at a homeless encampment below the Hathaway Creative Center in Waterville.
A Waterville police officer arrests Shawn Stanford on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court. He was taken into custody Dec. 23 at the homeless encampment near downtown Waterville where he shares a tent with his girlfriend, Amanda Frasier, in background.
Amanda Frasier becomes emotional Dec. 23 as she is left alone at a homeless encampment in Waterville after her boyfriend, Shawn Stanford, is arrested on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court.
Shawn Stanford gathers some belongings from his tent near the Hathaway Creative Center in Waterville on Dec. 24 after he and his girlfriend Amanda Frasier are offered three nights at a hotel by Waterville interim police Chief Bill Bonney.
Amanda Frasier quickly grabs some belongings Dec. 24 from a tent she shares with boyfriend Shawn Stanford after the pair were offered three nights at a hotel by Waterville interim police Chief Bill Bonney.
Amanda Frasier cleans up Dec. 26 at a hotel room offered to them by Waterville interim police Chief Bill Bonney.
Amanda Frasier and her boyfriend, Shawn Stanford, talk on Dec. 26 about their next move once their time is up at the Waterville hotel where they are staying. The two had been living in a tent for nearly six months and were finding living in the cold temperatures to be too dangerous and depressing. They plan to travel to Stanford's mother's home in Brunswick.
Amanda Frasier walks through the living room Jan. 4 at the Brunswick home of her boyfriend's mother.
Amanda Frasier smiles Jan. 4 as she walks outside to smoke a cigarette at the Brunswick home of her boyfriend's mother.
Shawn Stanford and girlfriend Amanda Frasier relax Jan. 4 at his mother's home in Brunswick.
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