SUBJECT: Gwendolyn Hopkins

“Homeless in LA” Project

“My vision of death was dope in my hand and a pipe in my mouth; I died twice using. No breath in my body, no heartbeat or anything. If anyone was to say I would live to fifty, I would say it was totally impossible.”

Gwen...

Eddy “Blanket” Turner

“Homeless in LA” Project - #3

For those of us old enough to remember, Saturday morning cartoons were “the bomb”. At a time prior to the instant gratification of “high-speed video streaming”, we had to actually wait till Saturday morning to see the b...

Let us not Forget – They are people

It is so easy to walk by and ignore them as they babble to themselves or correction to others that exist only in their own minds. But imagine being trapped in a delusion that never goes away?

Clarence was schizophrenic, this fact was i...

During my “Hipshot” photography (shooting from the hip only) I often see the same people as I walk to the office in DTLA each day. There is one particular homeless man who is always polite; says hello and sometimes, but not always asks for spare changes (which I have n...