Life on the streets of Los Angeles – in pictures
▻https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2023/nov/15/life-on-the-streets-of-los-angeles-in-pictures
The photographer and campaigner Suitcase Joe is known for his raw depiction of life on Skid Row. His new book, Grey Flowers, takes an unflinching but empathic look at working-class, unhoused and marginalised people in the city
Naked and Alone in Skid Row
A pregnant woman walks naked and alone through the heart of Skid Row, clutching a blanket. When asked if she needed some clothes and warned of the attention she might bringing to herself, she replied: ‘What can they do to me now that they haven’t already done?’