John

Glasgow, Scotland
Leica M Monochrom – 50mm Summilux

John has been a homeless heroin addict for 19 years and has been clean for 19 months. I asked him how hard it was coming off it and he told me it was the second hardest thing he has ever done. I asked him what was the hardest and he said coming off the drink as every time he did he started heroin again.
He was reading a novel and asking folk for change when they went by. I gave him a fiver and asked what he would do with it and he said it would go towards his £30 per night bed and breakfast. He goes to a B&B every night so that he doesn’t have to sleep in homeless shelters as they are full of addicts and they would just end getting him back on the drug.
I asked if I could take his photo and he said fire away. Nice guy dealt a bad hand.