Signs of the Homeless

John Conn spent a summer photographing the men and women living on the streets of the Bronx, New York. Each had a sign, and a very personal story. Thomas Cox reports.

“We all see the homeless – more or less – although we often do our best to look elsewhere,” says New York photographer John Conn. “I would walk past, look at their signs and then their faces and try to match up the two – seeing if they correlate.”