SDF - Homeless, Paris

A homeless person lying in front of the entrance of a supermarket in Paris.
I was shocked, and so I decided to publish photos of people living on the fringes of society.
In the past few years I witnessed how more and more of these people were slipping through the decreasing social welfare net. I repeatedly watched busses evacuating confused, dirty, stinking people from underground stations. In the summer of 1999 I worked in a soup kitchen at the Gare de Lyon (train station in Paris) and then I joined a group of young social welfare workers. They helped me to establish contact with the homeless.
If someone loses their dignity: how can they get it back, can someone give it back to them? This was the idea underlying my work.