"To know a person you have to be known by that person. Moyra Peralta knows the people she photographs. We, who look at her photographs, are witnessing an exchange. We overhear, with our eyes, two or more voices talking to one another. And the voices have allowed us to be there. Make yourself at home, the voices suggest. And this is startling, even disturbing, because the photographs are of the homeless.

Turning the pages of this book we come upon close-ups of the excluded, of those who suffer from being treated as if they ought to be invisible. The photographs are close-ups not in the photographic but in the human sense of the term.

The close-up is the opposite of a statistic. The love which the photographer has for her subjects is the opposite of philanthropy. There are impulses deeper than generosity. What first matters is recognition… Following the example of Moyra Peralta, let us look at the close-ups to come with attention. They will then surprise us with their resilience, their wit, their indomitability and their despair."

John Berger in his discourse 'Recognition', in Nearly Invisible.

"30 years of life on the margins. Photographer Moyra Peralta has created the most comprehensive visual record of homeless people in the UK ever… The book, which has unintentionally become the largest documentation of London's street homeless culture ever made, is Peralta's testament and tribute to the people she has met…"

Max Daly, The Big Issue.