Skid Row
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Indian Alley Portrait near 5th Street
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Gladys Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets
Genevine on Towne Avenue near 6th Street, Skid Row, Los Angeles
Victoria dances on 6th Street near Towne Avenue
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Doreen on Towne Avenue near 5th Street in the late afternoon sun
Doreen on Towne Avenue
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Doreen and Gary, Stanford Avenue, February 2018
Baudelaire Is Everywhere
Christine reads Baudelaire on Crocker Street at 3rd.Christine is an artist, and I met her for the first time on this day, applying makeup on the sidewalk along Los Angeles Street.She has schizophrenia and has struggled with heroin addiction since she was a teenager. she is in her early twenties here.
Christine gets ready to inject heroin after visiting the needle exchange on 4th street. she picked up a new coat from the exchange, and sits with it on her lap. The needle exchange provides safe works, food, clothes and medical care. Christine struggles with past abuse and trauma, addiction and schizophrenia.
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Christine on Towne Avenue near 4th Street. she has nowhere to go and has all of her belongings in her suitcase. she must stay near the needle exchange on 4th street because of the support and care they offer, here she sits contemplates her situation
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.
Bridget searches the dumpsters on Skid Row for anything she can gather to recycle. She spends a lot of time in dumpsters,sifting through layers of putrid garbage for anything she can salvage.
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bridget stands in front of her home, a tent located on gladys avenue. she lives alone and has managed for many years on one of the most dangerous and chaotic streets on skid row. drug sales, trafficking and daily violence are a part of her existence.here she is pictured after handwashing her clothing in a bucket.