Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/20

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Subject: [Leica] photographing the homeless "smug Europeans"
From: wlarsen at ocsnet.net (Bill Larsen)
Date: Sat Jan 20 13:31:03 2007
References: <500251.49224.qm@web25504.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
 
Nick Roberts wrote:

>I heard a report recently that claimed there are only around 300 rough 
>sleepers left in the UK. I don't believe that for a moment, but there 
>certainly do seem to be a lot less than there used to be, and then centered 
>really on the big cities. This has to be largely down to the effect of 
>things like "Big Issue".
>Does that mean that homelessness has gone away here? Does it buggery. Just 
>that it's not as visible - there's probably at least as much misery in the 
>post-modern version. Hope that doesn't sound too smug...
>
>Nick
>
>  
>
Think of it as "New speak" (apologies to Orwell who got what is 
happening in the U.S. right)
Just start figuring out the subcategories of  "homeless."
Replies: Reply from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] photographing the homeless "smug Europeans")
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