This photographic series is a candidportrayal of people living in a historic neighborhood on the brink and inevitably a cry for help.

The background: the Tenderloin, a downtown area in San Francisco, has been notorious from its origins after the gold rush for its semi legal businesses, gambling parlors, boxing gyms, speakeasies and later brothels, Jazz clubs and transgender cafes. In the seventies it also became home to refugees and immigrants, that could not afford rent anywhere else in the city. In recent years the TL was hit hard during the pandemic a.o. due to its dense population living in single room occupancy (SRO) type Hotels and an equally devastating fentanyl crises paired with homelessness, mental health issues and crime, which prompted the Mayor to declare a state of emergency in 2022.

The photos taken over a span of 4 years show people ‘as is’, many of them hanging in the ropes, it is as if an angel has crash landed and can not unfold its magic with broken legs and broken wings.