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19-AUG-2009

A Place To Be

Shinbuya, Tokyo, Japan

Homeless with a very extravagant sleeping place at a playground just beween Harajuku and Shibuya, two of Tokyo's most fancy and expensive districts. The economic crisis has driven more and more people into poverty, and I really was shocked this year to see how many people are living on the street. In this park above there is a small "town" of houses made from carton and plastic. Noone seems to care....
This is my first upload since the big crash of the pbase server, and waiting for minutes and minutes to have this one image online, I am really starting to regret that I paid for another two years of pbase membership just a couple of weeks ago.... A number of my galleries are still missing, and I don't know whether anyone at pbase is trying to recover them.


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Guest 10-Oct-2009 12:45
wow...what a spectacular find for a photo...
laine06-Oct-2009 22:48
A sad state of affairs. Hopefully the world leaders will keep closer watch on what companies & banks are doing...look beyond the glitz of the first page of a magazine & often you will see the content is very thin.
12306-Oct-2009 21:48
Hope all works out for you on Pbase.
12306-Oct-2009 21:47
Wow, loving the moment and carefree. V
Bill Warren06-Oct-2009 16:42
What an odd place to street sleep. We all hope that Slug will get his act together very soon. B
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