The homeless and immigrants - those select few that Parisians would perhaps rather not see, at least at Christmas time. Neither indifference nor presidential words will make this ‘problem’ disappear
Photos: living on the street in Paris
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Translation: Natalia Sosin
06/02/08
Tags : homeless, photography, photogallery, poverty, illegal immigrants, Paris, France, Western EU, Europe.
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Jorge Alexandre Pereira
Palais de Chaillot: scene of social manifestations
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Subway: the indifference for poverty goes deeper
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Metro station ‘Opera’ by night
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)One way of spending a warm night in the winter by St. Paul, the metro stop leading to the capital’s gay and Jewish quarter
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Rainy morning in Paris
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
A homeless person (‘SDF’ or ‘sans domicile fixe’) walks around Place de la Bastille where the former prison stood. He searches a scrap of breakfast someone may have left
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Street performer
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Sarkozy’s image dots newsstands and kiosks around the city
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
One of the regular weekend protests in the city; this one demanding the right of citizenship
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Tunisians on the platform by metro Trocadero in the city’s west. It provides you with this sublime image of one of the most famous sights in Europe
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
A jazz band provides the soundtrack to the march on the rights of immigrants having papers
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Christmas 2007 - Christian meeting in Saint-François Xavier
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Boulevard des Italiens, one of seven boulevards running through the city, built by Baron von Haussmann in the late 1800s. Together with the family during the run-up to christmas
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Rue de la Fayette is where the grand Lafayettes stand, the version of London’s Harrods shopping store - many expensive Christmas presents to choose
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
Boulevard des Italiens again, and marked differences at Christmas time
(Photo: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
(Photos: Jorge Alexandre Pereira)
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