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Skid Row Diaries

In 2024, I photographed and interviewed 100 homeless people living in Downtown LA’s Skid Row. The Los Angeles Mission was kind enough to allow me to use their courtyard, where I built an outdoor studio to collect stories from people who were drifting by to grab a hot meal.

I discovered everyone on Skid Row is dealing with trauma… yet they possess a beauty in spirit that can only be seen at the edge, in the twilight where life and death dance together, and redemption is always footsteps away.

Please click on LaJeune to see the process. 99 more interviews to come. Thank you!