Jim Goldberg USA. Hollywood, California. 1988-89. "I'm Dave." The stomach and scar of Tweeky Dave, one of the leaders and spokespeople for homeless youth on the streets of Hollywood. There are differing stories (...)
about the origin of this scar; Tweeky Dave says that it is from his father shooting him in the stomach at the age of 12, and doctors claim it is from a stomach operation. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
Jim Goldberg "Girl with No Name." This girl is holding a crack pipe - so crazed that she searches every corner of the sidewalk, picking up white refuse, hoping it will be crack. She has broken an identification (...)
card in half and is rubbing the ink from it on her face. San Francisco, California, USA. 1992. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
Jim Goldberg "Early Morning, Plummer Park." This is a place where homeless outreach advocates give out free food, condoms and other services. This 14-year-old had just come back from a bad trick with a Hollywoo (...)
d producer and is sore and bruised all over. He is takes a smoke break and is about to go turn another trick. West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. 1989. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
Jim Goldberg "I'm Dave." A group of runaway teenagers leave their squat to go to Hollywood Boulevard to panhandle and find food. In the foreground is Tweeky Dave, one of the leaders and spokespeople for homeles (...)
s youth on the streets of Hollywood. At this time there were 30 to 40 thousand homeless youth in Los Angeles. Hollywood, California, USA. 1988-89. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
Jim Goldberg USA. West Hollywood, Los Angeles. 1988. "Slamming Alcohol." The Palms Hotel. Cookie, a street kid, having just discovered that she is pregnant, wants to celebrate. As no one has any speed or wants (...)
to go out and turn a trick, they turn to the only thing they do have - a quarter pint of 101 Bacardi Rum. They shoot up with this. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
Jim Goldberg USA. San Francisco. 1987. "Tank, Room 17, Riviera Hotel." San Francisco, the Riviera Hotel window. Tank, a homeless youth, has just woken up midday from being fast asleep. Hungover, he pulls out hi (...)
s gun and reenacts a Russian roulette game played earlier with a friend. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos