"You Know It's Hard Out Here"

Homeless, hungry and with no where to go, people who have very little often sleep at the Powell Street BART station in San Francisco. This man eventually woke, slightly disoriented, and made his way to where he would sit asking for spare change, and saying God Bless to everyone who just passed him by, uncaring. I followed him for a bit until he was out of the BART terminal because the police will often beat up people who wander into the terminal during rush hours. With me obviously being a student, and doing photojournalism - and stating this to the police - it dissuaded them from throwing this man a really bad beating for no other reason than him being obviously impoverished.