Says Jeremiah Maller the photographer:
I instantly fell in love with the Mission neighborhood when I moved to San Francisco about two years ago. When I recently moved to the Mission (3 months ago) I started documenting the people I run into on the street. See the results in the Mission Faces gallery [here].
What a document! Nice faces, y’all!
What are these, before and after pictures?
Mostly mean-looking 20-somethings and sour, deranged drug addicts.
With the interspersion of some friendly people. Sums up a vision of the mish.
You say nice faces, but I think I ran into this guy on Hoff St. today — He had a backdrop set up on Hoff St., and he said something like, “do you want to make a mean face or a sad face?” So that may have something to do with the faces in the portraits. Same guy?
Yes Pete, that’s him. His other site is titled” “That which only a mother could love.”
My mission is not nearly so surly. A little more borracho, however…