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Exile On Main Street

In the Tunnels Beneath Las Vegas

Back in November 2010, Austin Hargrave wrote about his experience photographing the homeless who live in the tunnels beneath Las Vegas. His photographs appeared in Matthew O’Brien’s book, Beneath the Neon, which documents the people who live (for a variety of reasons) in the drainage tunnels beneath the city. With homelessness numbers in Las Vegas tripling since 2009, it makes you wonder if the tunnels have seen an influx of residents in the last year.

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Made You Look

What Homelessness Looks Like

Lee Jeffries is an accountant who also happens to take harrowing photos. “My involvement with the homeless started after an encounter with a young girl in London,” Jeffries told Impose Magazine back in September of 2010. “She was huddled under a sleeping bag in a doorway in Leicester Square and took offense as I stole a photo from a distance.…

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