5th And Main Streets, DTLA

Harmonica

L Train Platform at 1st Avenue

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Rico near Indian Alley and Los Angeles Street

Bridget

Bridget stands at the corner of 5th and San Pedro. She is taking a break from her recycling activities....she spends hours each day, pushing a shopping cart loaded with recyclables. Cans, bottles, metal, plastic, anything at all that she can sell by weight at the recycling center located on Alameda. She routinely digs through garbage bins and mountains of trash piled at street corners to mine for bits she can sell.

Genevine and Henry

Henry had lost too much weight, and his hepatitis C was causing him considerable fatigue. Genevine was the sole support for the two, and used sex work as well as boosting from local stores as her income source.

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Gloria on Winston Street between Los Angeles St and Maple St.

Doreen on Towne Avenue near 5th Street in the late afternoon sun