From the 1970s I've seen and photographed a perfect storm of cuts, closures, attacks on trade unions and political policies carefully crafted to transfer ever more of the national income away from the powerless and into the offshore pockets of the powerful. This trickledown of poverty hits the old and poor hardest.
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Shelter for homeless people in disused office block in Whitechapel, London, UK run by Crisis at Xmas, a charity. © David Hoffman phone 020 8981 5041, fax 020 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.
Homeless people receive soup, food and sandwiches from charity van run by St Mungo Community, Waterloo, London, UK. © David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.
Homeless woman pushing a trolley with her belongings on the street in San Francisco, California, USA.
Homeless mentally ill woman pushing a trolley loaded with old clothes, furniture, bric-a-brac, clothing, blankets, rubbish & her dog. St Pauls, London, UK.
Easington, Durham 1989. British coal dump colliery waste directly into the sea smothering life on the sea bed & blackening beaches. Unemployed ex miners scratch a living collecting coal washed up on beach. © David Hoffman phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041, fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041, email lib@hoffmanphotos.com NUJ & BAPLA recommended terms & conditions apply. Moral rights asserted under Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988. Full terms and conditions for digital and traditional use available on request. Credit is required. No part of this photo to be stored, reproduced, manipulated or transmitted by any means without permission.