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Local Neighborhood Bottle Picker

Posted by
BLISTR (Edmonton, Canada) on 9 October 2008 in People & Portrait and Portfolio.

This fellow rode up on a bicycle while I was photographing outside the school where I teach. It was about 6 PM and I guess he wanted to talk. He mentioned the camera but wasn't really interested in what I was shooting. He told me he was the local bottle picker. He was very proud of the work he did.

I asked if I could take is picture. He obliged and then told me that was the first picture anyone had ever taken of him. I wasn't sure what to think of that. Tomorrow's photograph is a symbol of his homelessness.

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