“He sleeps in the sunlight, one hand on his chest” : the he fear of meeting the “Dormeur du Val” of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who “In his right side, [has] two red holes”. Paris, 2022. Image: © PFRunner
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[People Of The Street] Man in a sleeping bag in an old street in the center of Paris, 2022. The French presidential 2022 electoral campaign have spoken of Rejection of « The Other », of Refusal to welcome « all the misery », of the Benefits of not tackling the rise of inequalities… forgetting Welcoming. Image : © PFRunner
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“Giuseppe n’aimait pas particulièrement les pigeons non plus jusqu’à ce qu’il apprenne que la mairie voulait les exterminer. Alors, il s’est mis à les nourrir. La mairie l’a prévenu : s’il continuait, on lui supprimerait son logement à loyer modéré. Mais il a continué, et il s’est retrouvé à la rue.” Pito Prods
Giuseppe and the pigeons, Beaubourg, Paris, 2010’s. Image : © PFRunner
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[People Of The Street] “The tramps: fools of exclusion, poverty, alcohol … and, above all, victims. Of society, of its laws. Of the labor market and its constraints. And beyond, it is against life itself that they revolt. Hallucinated, drunk, sick, they persist in dreaming furiously of an other and impossible place to go.” [Declerck] Paris, 2017. Image : © PFRunner
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[People Of The Street] « Living in the street, without something to do, bad ideas are back and then anxieties. So I drink… I often wonder if I’m already dead, or nearly dead… ». « Life in the street is a desolation of the subject and his own world » (Patrick Declerck), Paris Belleville, 2016. Image : © PFRunner
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