After the earthquake on 1-12-2010, survivors relocated to tent cities that sprung up all over Haiti. Gangs of rapists and thieves terrorized these settlements while billions in US AID went undelivered due to corruption within these settlements.
Scenes from the Bay Area Women's March. On January 21st, 2017 women from across the Bay Area joined with women all over the country to march for human rights, civil liberties and justice.
A woman reads her confession of faith before being baptized at San Fransisco Lighthouse Church
Lukas lives in an SRO in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. Single Room Occupancy is a form of housing where one or two people are housed in individual rooms within a multiple tenant building. Tenants often share bathrooms or kitchens
Firefighters respond to a three alarm fire in the Tenderloin District of San Fransisco
*Brenda
Jones and Golden Gate St
Namibia, West Africa
A woman reads the Quran in the woman's section of the Mosque. The men and women are separated by a wall during worship.
A worker from the Thembalethu Palliative Home Care program puts the finishing touches on a coffin. This region of South Africa has been hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The burial grounds are so full that there are two coffins per grave. The first coffin is buried at six feet down and the second coffin at three feet.
Having lost his drugs earlier in the evening, *Dominik stops to inject his veins with a mixture of air, water, and powder hoping for a high.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Avalon Cemetary, Soweto, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Delma 33, Tent City. Haiti
St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church provides a place for homeless residents of San Fransisco to get some sleep after a long night on the street.
Robert plays accordion at the Civic Center Bart every day. A resident of the Tenderloin, He has eaten at this same restaurant every night for the last fifteen years.
Licia K, a resident of San Francisco's Sunset district survived life in Italy during the Second World War before coming to the United States. Here she displays a photograph that used to hang on the wall of her antique shop on Sutter and Taylor streets. After her husband and partner died, she closed the shop but has continued selling online.