Lee Jeffries is a Manchester-based photographer who has taken some powerful portraits of homeless people - "Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait."
I think we should apply his finishing techniques to our own portrait. natural light, HDR, black and white. you could see the beauty in these people and it would be interesting to see how we compare . . .
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16536699@N07/