I lived in downtown Chicago and saw this everyday until the city put up a bid for the Olympics. All the people that I talked to on my walk to work under Wacker St disappeared....That was around the time Obama was running for the president and won. The streets were cleaned up but I wondered what happened to my street friends that protected me when I walked to work. I often shared my dinner and brought batteries to a few that were friendly and not violent. The photographer was amazing and I wanted to capture the fear of addiction he caught. I am from the hill country SE of Portland Oregon near Mt Hood. I grew up in the wild douglas fir country and never experienced this kind of homelessness until I moved to Chicago. I also took classes at Truman College and got to know people being displaced by gentrification, many very hostile and threatening my life until I could talk them down and we got to know each other. http://leejeffries.500px.com/homeless
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Yeah, i'm seeing it on streets of Bangkok in huge amount. It is horrible, from elderly disabled to small and unprotected, but as you said, many of them were not violent and bad, just poor and alone. World is not what it used to be. Some got to much, many got to little, but a lot of them are left with nothing.
Anyway emotion caught on the pic above... very real. There is where my question came from, the authentic and naked reality of emotion.
Many thanks for answer.
P.S. I'm from Belgrade, Serbia.
Luci