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‘Please Step Over’ Downtown Manhattan
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LUST & RUM 
Really love this post. Awesome pictures. Would you let me use them for some of my posts (indicating source and your blog) ?
Help yourself, thank you for your kind words.
thank you for sharing such beautiful photos.. i’m really interested in the subject and i might write something about it soon..
Great shots, I love the street feel and gritty nature of the content. Keep it up!
Thank you, I will.
Great shots, but such a sad subject…we live in a confused world!
Thank you. Confused or ignorant? I think there maybe a fine line between the two
Great photo-journalism but like everyone else said too: very sad commentary. We have the same problems in Vancouver and they are all over the world. Poverty. Addiction. Illness. Depression. And desperate loneliness.
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Thanks, very sad but needs highlighting. The majority of people just avert their eyes.
Yes. I know. There but for the Grace of God, go I… It can happen to anyone. Lose everything because of one mistake. Some people don’t get all the ‘chances’ they need. Most of us are all a couple of paychecks away from devastation. But even in those dire situations, God has the vulnerable ones in His hands–with love.
Reblogged this on PRESIDENTS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM and commented:
Simply Just a Sad Result of Ignorance
It is, you are right. Thank you for that. We need to wake up.
Great pictures but also an indictment of the system we live in, there is enough for everyone but a selfish society prefers to throw people on the streets.
Sad to see, compelling to document. Thanks
your first photo reminds me of a story i was told about a homeless man in downtown los angeles. he was laying on the sidewalk just like the photo and people were stepping over him. come to find out the man was deceased. breaks my heart that nobody checked on him until it was too late.
I think human nature or perhaps self preservation makes us look away and not ‘get involved’ sometimes. Thank you for your comments
reminds me of the the song “another day in paradise” by Phil Collins. This the way photography should be, it should tell a story. great photos.
Wow, thanks for that great comment
Amazing pictures and blog!
Thanks, pleased that you like it
Great storytelling in the images but hard to look at people going through such troubles. I really wish there could be a solution but sometimes people need to help themselves which isn’t easy with addiction or whatever it was that led them down this path in the first place.
I’ve heard it said, …”People need to help themselves”….as I look through all of these photographs on your site….I can’t help… But think…. there isn’t, one person you’ve photographed….who’s beginning aspiration it was, to live this way….and who wouldn’t “Help Themselves”…if they Knew How…had the proper Resources…and the Mental Capacity….but for the luck of the draw….go any of us, spiraling over the edge. Humanness….can be a very subjective quality, it seems.
Just ‘Dungeons and dragons’ but with a little reality of decision. I guess? Thank you Kirsten. I love your prose. Can any of us really know where we may end or what brought us to that moment.
Great set of photographs here!
Thank you.
A story in every photo… your work is amazing!