Homeless
The first ten photographs in this gallery were all taken around downtown San Francisco in one afternoon in February 2010. The last five were taken around London throughout the year. 5500 miles apart but the scenes are inseparable.
In bright streets, they seek the shadows. Sitting on the pavement they are ignored, either accidentally or deliberately. For those who do look down, it’s all too easy to look back up. Attention, when it comes, is more likely to come from the authorities, looking to move them on so they are even more out of sight.
The depression and anguish they suffer is mirrored in the positions they adopt. Heads down, hoods up. In an underpass leading to Tottenham Court Road tube station this is taken to the extreme of a stress position that would not be out of place in a terrorist interrogation camp.
With scrap cardboard signs and ubiquitous fast food chain cups for collection cans, some look for busy thoroughfares and intersections. Others forage for half-eaten scraps in the detritus of the society that ignores them.
Homelessness – Wikipedia
Shelter
St Mungo’s
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