Pepe Otero attained a measure of true celebrity for his handiwork, thanks to a series of photographs taken by Margaret Morton, a Cooper Union professor who documented the Hoovervilles built by the homeless in the 1980s. Pepe’s stoic face has appeared in architecture magazines in the United States and Europe, as well as the current issue of Aperture magazine. He also gave Ms. Morton an understanding of the world created by the homeless, which she has been researching for years in lots and tunnels.
— David Gonzalez, The New York Times

The palpable yearning for permanence pervades both the structures and
Ms. Morton’s photographs of them.
— Patricia Leigh Brown, The New York Times

Morton’s photographs of a Lower East Side shantytown emphasize the residents’ resourcefulness and middle-class values; one man even built
a fence with a gate around his neat shack.
— Charles Hagen, The New York Times

But to photographer Margaret Morton, Lee was anything but anonymous and unrecognizable. He was the homeless Chinese man she’d been following for 18 months, and now she was planning his funeral.
—J.A. Lobbia, The Village Voice

Though these tarp-covered lean-tos and tented benches have a kind of
spooky power, it’s the implicit presence of people huddled inside them that gives Morton’s work a subtle punch.
— Vince Aletti, The Village Voice

Morton has spent a decade or more charting the migrations of the homeless in what you could think of as a diaspora.
— Guy Trebay, The Village Voice

Margaret Morton demonstrates that photography can still be a telling social witness, even in the age of postmodern fatigue. The photographs expose an enormous amount of careful detail, yet they do not trespass too closely or become a microscopic of judgmental eye. These photographs serve a multiple audience. They are a lesson in intelligent photographic commentary, which hits a delicate balance between observation, response, and political call to action.
— Kim Sichel, Exposure