THE voices of the Brighton's rough sleepers will be played across the city as part of special Festival exhibition.

The Doorways sound installation project will feature homeless people talking about the daily violence, addiction and freezing conditions that they endure.

Interviews will be played over speakers in a number of doorway locations across the city.

The ghostly voices will tell tales of the disturbing difficulties of living on the streets including recalling watching friends die, being attacked by drunks and descending into drug addiction.

One man, named only as Red, said:"We find it difficult some days to just kick yourself up the bum and go out and survive the day because once you are on the street, every day is just a survival experience and if you go to bed and you wake up in the morning without bruises, or whatever like, you’ve really survived that day you know and its the next day."

The artist behind the project Bekki Perriman spent some time living on the street in London and Brighton selling The Big Issue.

She said: "It is important to me for the public to understand that there is so much complexity to homelessness.

"Many people sleeping rough have been through incredibly difficult life experiences and there are so many different reasons someone might be in that situation and also many obstacles that make it a really difficult situation to get out of."

She added: "I wanted to approach it by looking at homeless culture and the story that isn't told, simply what every day street life is like. Very few people have understanding of what it is actually like to be on the streets and so I am focusing my work on that unique experience of sleeping rough. It has been interesting also talking to people about their perceptions of homeless people prior to becoming homeless themselves."

The Doorways Project runs until May 29 during daylight hours and features monologues being played at locations such as Brighton and Hove Foyer in Pelham Street, Swat Marketing in Elder Place, and the steps next to New England House in York Hill.

For more information and to download a map of the locations visit brightonfestival.org.