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  • View from a cafe in Kyoto
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Entrance of restaurant in Kyoto
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  • Restaurant In Kyoto
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
    SHIBUYASKY_5282.jpg
  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Shibuya Sky, on the rooftop of a skyscrapper in the midde of Shibuya area of Tokyo.
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  • Acropolis by night
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  • Muhammad (14, on the left) and Muhammad (18, on the right) are refugees from Syria. They met in Izmir and decided to continue travelling together. They both left their families behind because there wasn’t enough money for everyone to travel. The youngest one comes from Aleppo and his family has a small mini market. His parents are originally from Palestine and they went to Syria as refugees. Muhammad is now a second generation refugee, this time from Syria to Europe. He has been travelling for a month before he reached Thessaloniki. The older Muhammad is from Edlib and his family has a real estate business. He has been travelling for one month and twenty days. <br />
They both keep in touch with their families via social media apps and email. <br />
They arrived to Thessaloniki in the night and they spent the night sleeping at the bus station so that in the morning they could board the bus to Eidomeni border.<br />
Refugees often arrive to Thessaloniki by train and then they go to the intercity bus station to board on the bus to Eidomeni border where they can cross to the Republic of Macedonia on foot.
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • "Yorgos" one of the last Greek night clubs left in Istanbul, attracts a lot of Turkish people who dance on the sounds of Greek and Turkish music..ISTANBUL, Androniki Christodoulou/WorldPictureNews
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  • Vat Sarom (16) in a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. About one and a half year ago Sarom was living in a village bordering Thailand with her family. Her father had just had an accident stepping on a mine and her mother was pregnant, when a trafficker offered to help her get a job as a waitress at a restaurant in Siem Reap. She left her village and on the way the trafficker lied to her and instead brought her to Banteay Manchey province where she made her stay in a hotel, promising her that after that they would go to Siem Reap. There the woman trafficker sold her virginity to a man and forced her to stay with an other man for 3 nights. After that, instead of bringing her to Siem Reap, she sold her to a brothel at the village Sasda on the Thai border. There Sarom was locked in and forced to take 8-10 customers every night. To keep her awake and cheerful, the brother owner gave her drugs. These made her not wanting to eat or sleep and she was feeling happy without thinking any more. She was taking the drug every 3 days with the money she made of her tips. There were 14 girls in the brothel but only she and one more girl were underaged. She was afraid to escape because the owner of the brothel belonged to the military police and when some girls managed to escape, they were quickly caught and badly beaten when they were brought back. Eventually she managed to contact a relative of hers by borrowing a phone from a client and this way the operation for her rescuing started. On March 2007 and after she had spent 8 months in the brothel, the combination of a court decision, police pressure and the efforts of the NGO made the brothel owner release her. .Since then she is in the rehabilitation center, happy to be rescued but also very sad that all this happened, blaming herself for following the trafficker. She is trying to forget but she can not and instead she escapes in to her music, any music that she can hear from he
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY at club YELLOW - Tokyo - At the stairs between the club's levels..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
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  • Refugee family that spent the night at the port. They didn't have a tent and they used carton boxes to protect their young son from the cold. <br />
The port of Mytilene where many refugees stay while they apply for a permit to stay in Greece or while they are waiting to board the ferry to Athens.
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  • Tarik Aljadoue (34) and his wife Samar Jamal (27) at the space that NGO Aggalia has organised as a temporary stop for refugees in Kaloni village, as they are on their way to Mytilene city. A local person drove them there the night before. The couple is from Alepo in Syria where Tarik was working as an IT engineer for a French owned oil company until they closed down their business there in 2011. Since 2011 he moved to Kafarhamra north of Alepo, as his house in Alepo was in a dangerous area. He got married to Samar one year ago and they were waiting to see what will happen to their country. 6 months ago internet was cut so it was difficult to learn any news of what was really happening. Local TV was only broadcasting propaganda from different armies. On Friday one week ago, they decided to find a safe country to have their children and leave Syria where they saw no work and no future as they could not see the end of this war. They want to try to reach Germany or any other European country where they can find work. <br />
Their trip started from Alepo to Tartus by bus, then on an other bus to a port from where they boarded a ship for one and a half day to Toshojo port (Tasucu port?) in Turkey near Mersin. From there they took a bus for 13 hours to Izmir but before they arrive they heard that there were police checks in Izmir and as soon as they arrived, they boarded an other bus for 9 hour to Istanbul. There they stayed for two days until the smugglers told them that they could start their trip to Greece. They payed 1250 USD each and after two days, at 8 am, they met the smugglers at a metro station, they boarded a bus with 60 people and no AC and they traveled to a location near Izmir. The trip lasted for 7 hours and it was unbearably hot. When they got off the bus somewhere near the sea, they were told to switch off their mobile phones and walk for one hour until they reached the sea. There there were three dinghy boats with engines and 33 to 40 people would board on each
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  • The Genji Room.  Visitors these days come across a life-size replica of Lady Murasaki  in a room next to the main building of Ishiyamadera Temple. A saying goes that she started writing the novel at the same location in a moonlit night of August 1004, after being overwhelmed by the scenic reflection of the moon on the water of the adjacent Lake Biwa.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY in club YELLOW - Tokyo- Fashion show of TG (Torture Garden) fetish fashion label..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
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  • Night view of Paceo de Marti street in Havana - CUBA
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  • French middle-aged man with young prostitute he just picked up on the riverfront, on a boat-bar that every night cruses Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh.
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  • Homeless person's bicycle parked during night time inside a shopping mall in Kamagasaki.
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  • Homeless people queing outside Airin Labor Welfare Center for tickets to night shelters in the area.
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  • Girls from Shizuoka city who came to the beach to have fun and spend the night dancing sauce in a local salsa party. <br />
Yuigahama beach in Kamakura is one of the most popular beaches near Tokyo. It takes about one and a half hour to reach it by train from central Tokyo and it is usually crowded on weekends and on public holidays.
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  • One of the many neoclasic houses of Mytilene city stands empty by the port where refugees have to spend the night in tents. <br />
The port of Mytilene where many refugees stay while they apply for a permit to stay in Greece or while they are waiting to board the ferry to Athens.
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  • Old man organizing his spot for the night.<br />
Moria refugee camp is a bit further out of Mytilene city and it is divided in two sections. The inner part is well organised with buildings and police guarding it, and the outer part where mainly Afghan refugees live in tents and is purely guarded with chaotic situations, mainly during food distribution, frequently occur.
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  • Lighting a fire for the night.<br />
Refugee camp Kara Tepe near Mytilene city. It hosts Syrian refugees who are waiting for their registration papers that will allow them to stay in Greece for some time till they can move to an other European country.
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  • Hollywood Blv. .Kery campaigners on a Halloween night
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY in club YELLOW - Tokyo - At the stairs between the club's levels..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY in club YELLOW - Tokyo- Cyberpunks..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY at club YELLOW- Concert by band DESPAIR..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. In an attempt to diversify the crowd, the band "Despair" whose sound could be described as "industrial" or "cybergoth" was brought in to perform. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
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  • Show organized by dominatrix house "LA SIORA" in the party IBIZA PARADICE at CLUB ORBIENT. .The party Ibiza paradise was an attempt by the organizers to integrate fetish fantasy into a typically mainstream club experience. While the Djs and organizers are also involved in the sm scene, the club itself is known for its fashion events, the music is decidedly mainstream house music, and many of the patrons were the regular clientele of the club. The shows were practically the only fetishistic element of the night itself, talking to the show organizer Rie (from the dominatrix house La Siora), the idea was to make sm more accessible to
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  • Show organized by dominatrix house "LA SIORA" in the party IBIZA PARADICE at CLUB ORBIENT-  whiping marks on the body of a slave taking part in the show, in the club's dressing-room.  .The party Ibiza paradise was an attempt by the organizers to integrate fetish fantasy into a typically mainstream club experience. While the Djs and organizers are also involved in the sm scene, the club itself is known for its fashion events, the music is decidedly mainstream house music, and many of the patrons were the regular clientele of the club. The shows were practically the only fetishistic element of the night itself, talking to the show organizer Rie (from the dominatrix house La Siora), the idea was to make sm more accessible to
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  • Night Club in Havana - CUBA
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  • In a market street of Airin, homeless day laborers alert over one of them who is unconsious. The guy eventualy recovered but it was said that three other homeless people died that night because of the cold weather..The old name of the area now called Airin, was untill 1966 Kamagasaki and many people still call it like that. .Kamagasaki (????) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (???????) became the region's official name in May, 1966.Sections of four different towns: Nishinari-ku Taishi (??????), Haginochaya (?????), Sanou (???), North Hanazono (????) and Tengachaya (?????) are collectively known as the Kamagasaki region..Kamagasaki as a place name existed until 1922. Kamagasaki is known as Japan's largest slum, and has the largest day laborer concentration in the entire country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius within this region. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses..
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  • Homeless people queing outside Airin Labor Welfare Center for tickets to night shelters in the area that is now called Airin. The old name of the area untill 1966, was Kamagasaki and many people still call it like that. .Kamagasaki (????) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (???????) became the region's official name in May, 1966.Sections of four different towns: Nishinari-ku Taishi (??????), Haginochaya (?????), Sanou (???), North Hanazono (????) and Tengachaya (?????) are collectively known as the Kamagasaki region..Kamagasaki as a place name existed until 1922. Kamagasaki is known as Japan's largest slum, and has the largest day laborer concentration in the entire country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius within this region. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses..
    11_KAMAGASAKI_0578.jpg
  • Homeless people queing outside Airin Labor Welfare Center for tickets to night shelters in the area that is now called Airin. The old name of the area untill 1966, was Kamagasaki and many people still call it like that. .Kamagasaki (????) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (???????) became the region's official name in May, 1966.Sections of four different towns: Nishinari-ku Taishi (??????), Haginochaya (?????), Sanou (???), North Hanazono (????) and Tengachaya (?????) are collectively known as the Kamagasaki region..Kamagasaki as a place name existed until 1922. Kamagasaki is known as Japan's largest slum, and has the largest day laborer concentration in the entire country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius within this region. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses.
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  • Son Rathany (14) (R) and Rous Mach (15) (L) who are both working as prostitutes, in the room where they sleep and sometimes bring clients, in a slam behind the "building" in Phnom Penh. They both started working as prostitutes about half a year ago. Son after her family broke up and Rous after being tricked to start going to bars by a divorced female friend of hers. They take 1-2 clients a night. Rous goes mainly to "Martini Pub" a bar where foreign men go to pick up prostitutes. Son looks very young so it is more difficult for her to go in the bars but she refused to say how she finds customers.
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  • Men sleeping in a night shelter for homeless day laborers in Kamagasaki.
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  • TOKYO TRANSGENDER.LA SAISON club in Shinjuku has a show with transsexual artists. Transsexuals there work as hostesses. This kind of night jobs are the usual jobs for transsexuals in Tokyo..©: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • TOKYO TRANSGENDER.LA SAISON club in Shinjuku has a show with transsexual artists. Transsexuals there work as hostesses. This kind of night jobs are the usual jobs for transsexuals in Tokyo..©: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • The Genji Room.  Visitors these days come across a life-size replica of Lady Murasaki  in a room next to the main building of Ishiyamadera Temple. A saying goes that she started writing the novel at the same location in a moonlit night of August 1004, after being overwhelmed by the scenic reflection of the moon on the water of the adjacent Lake Biwa.
    10_GENJI_9652.jpg
  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY at club WELLOW- Watching a show..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN PARTY in club YELLOW - Tokyo.The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures. This is in opposition to other clubs such as Tokyo perve that prides itself on its  draconian dresscode that excludes almost anyone except for the most fetishistically dressed to enter.
    38TG_0846.jpg
  • Homeless people queing outside Airin Labor Welfare Center for tickets to night shelters in the area that is now called Airin. The old name of the area untill 1966, was Kamagasaki and many people still call it like that. .Kamagasaki (????) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (???????) became the region's official name in May, 1966.Sections of four different towns: Nishinari-ku Taishi (??????), Haginochaya (?????), Sanou (???), North Hanazono (????) and Tengachaya (?????) are collectively known as the Kamagasaki region..Kamagasaki as a place name existed until 1922. Kamagasaki is known as Japan's largest slum, and has the largest day laborer concentration in the entire country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius within this region. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses..
    07_KAMAGASAKI_0549.jpg
  • Homeless day laborers queing outside Airin Labor Welfare Center for tickets to night shelters in the area.
    08_KAMAGASAKI_0550.jpg
  • In a market street of Kamagasaki, homeless day laborers alert over one of them who is unconsious. The guy eventualy recovered but it was said that three other homeless people died that night because of the cold weather.
    06_KAMAGASAKI_0780a.jpg
  • Refugees that spent the night at the port, using bottles with watter to wash themselves.<br />
The port of Mytilene where many refugees stay while they apply for a permit to stay in Greece or while they are waiting to board the ferry to Athens.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN party in club YELLOW - Tokyo..Dancing and playing..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures.
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  • TORTURE GARDEN party in club YELLOW - Tokyo..Dancing..The organisers of Torture Garden Japan describe their club as an underground culture club rather than one that is restricted soley to the sm/ fetish scene. That night's Torture Garden had a mix of  performance art, a fetish fashion runway, a bondage circus, cyberpunk fashion show aswell as the regular dancefloor to appeal to various subcultures.
    46TG_0893.jpg
  • Show organized by dominatrix house "LA SIORA" in the party IBIZA PARADICE at CLUB ORBIENT-  Submisive clients who take part in the show, in the club's dressing-room. .The party Ibiza paradise was an attempt by the organizers to integrate fetish fantasy into a typically mainstream club experience. While the Djs and organizers are also involved in the sm scene, the club itself is known for its fashion events, the music is decidedly mainstream house music, and many of the patrons were the regular clientele of the club. The shows were practically the only fetishistic element of the night itself, talking to the show organizer Rie (from the dominatrix house La Siora), the idea was to make sm more accessible to
    21ORBIENT_8666.jpg
  • Afghani girls who just arrived in Victoria square in Athens, after spending the night at a hotel together with their families, in order to have a shower and recover from their trip till then. They temporarily settled in front of a building with farry-tale theme painted walls near the square.<br />
Victoria square in Athens is one of the main gathering places for refugees. They stay there until they can find a way to travel to Thessaloniki and to the northern border of Greece where they can cross on foot on their way to northern European countries.
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  • Show organized by dominatrix house "LA SIORA" in the party IBIZA PARADICE at CLUB ORBIENT-  Dominatrix who takes part in the show, in the club's dressing-room.  .The party Ibiza paradise was an attempt by the organizers to integrate fetish fantasy into a typically mainstream club experience. While the Djs and organizers are also involved in the sm scene, the club itself is known for its fashion events, the music is decidedly mainstream house music, and many of the patrons were the regular clientele of the club. The shows were practically the only fetishistic element of the night itself, talking to the show organizer Rie (from the dominatrix house La Siora), the idea was to make sm more accessible to
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  • Girl at riverfront of Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Office employees in a night out in Shinjuku area of Tokyo
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  • Japanese couple taking photos in front of Aqua City shopping mall in Odaiiba. The location offers one of the best night views of Tokyo cityscape.
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  • Night view of the Tsukiji fish market as seen at 1 am from the Katsidoki bridge on Sumida river.  Tsukiji fish market  is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
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  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
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  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
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  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
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  • Homeless people and people who don't have a TV at home, waching baseball on an outdoors television in Sangaku park in Airin. Many of them live in huts inside the park. Others in the cheap accomodations offered in the area and others in the local night shelters. .The old name of the area now called Airin, was untill 1966 Kamagasaki and many people still call it like that. .Kamagasaki (????) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (???????) became the region's official name in May, 1966.Sections of four different towns: Nishinari-ku Taishi (??????), Haginochaya (?????), Sanou (???), North Hanazono (????) and Tengachaya (?????) are collectively known as the Kamagasaki region..Kamagasaki as a place name existed until 1922. Kamagasaki is known as Japan's largest slum, and has the largest day laborer concentration in the entire country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius within this region. An accurate count of occupants has never been produced, even in the national census, due to the large population of day laborers who lack permanent addresses..
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  • Corridor of a heap hotel in Kamagasaki where day laborers can spend the night for just 1500 yen. They stay in tinny tatami rooms and they share showers and toilets. The hotel is only for men.
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  • Office employees in a night out in Shinjuku area of Tokyo
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  • Night cityscape in Wan Chai
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  • Night view of the Tsukiji fish market as seen at 1 am from the Katsidoki bridge on Sumida river.  Tsukiji fish market  is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
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  • Night view of the Tsukiji fish market as seen at 1 am from the Katsidoki bridge on Sumida river.  Tsukiji fish market  is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
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  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
    NICHOME_4466.jpg
  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
    NICHOME_4424.jpg
  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
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  • boat-bars that every night cruse Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh. Many prostitutes meet clients in those bars
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  • Photographers taking photos in front of Aqua City in Odaiiba. The location offers one of the best night views of Tokyo cityscape.
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  • Club Arti-Farty is the busiest club in Nichome. It is mainly popular among Japanese and foreign gay men but lots of straight men and women go there too. Every Friday and Saturday night it gets packed with people untill 5 am when the first trains start running.
    NICHOME_4230.jpg
  • Street children by Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Ken Mochiduki (32), one of the managers of club "Ai", explains how the payment system works and how a host's salary can even reach 10 million yen a month, if a host can survive the hardship of night-life and drinking. Club "Ai" (love in Japanese) is one of the oldest host clubs in Kabukicho entertainment area near Shinjuku. It started functioning 37 years ago, with hosts ready to take care of the needs of their female customers. The customers have to pay from 5000 friendly price for beginners, to millions of yen, depending on how good the host is in pleasing the customer and encouraging her to buy drinks. On top of these a good host can receive expensive gifts from his regular customers.  Tokyo - JAPAN
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  • CLUB JAIL in Roppongi - Tokyo - S&M show.Club JAIL is an S&M club in Roppongi area (the most famous night-life area of Tokyo) that has shows and the crowd can be almost anything, dressed in normal or fetish clothes.
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  • Ken Mochiduki (32), one of the managers of club "Ai", explains how the payment system works and how a host's salary can even reach 10 million yen a month, if a host can survive the hardship of night-life and drinking. Club "Ai" (love in Japanese) is one of the oldest host clubs in Kabukicho entertainment area near Shinjuku. It started functioning 37 years ago, with hosts ready to take care of the needs of their female customers. The customers have to pay from 5000 friendly price for beginners, to millions of yen, depending on how good the host is in pleasing the customer and encouraging her to buy drinks. On top of these a good host can receive expensive gifts from his regular customers.  Tokyo - JAPAN
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  • CLUB JAIL in Roppongi - Tokyo. .Akira is a Body Painting artist. .Club JAIL is an S&M club in Roppongi area (the most famous night-life area of Tokyo) that has shows and the crowd can be almost anything, dressed in normal or fetish clothes.
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  • Pilgrims relaxing and praying in the monastery garden. Many pilgrims that come from Tibetan villages spend their nights on the monasteryís yards. .LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • Pilgrims relaxing and praying in the monastery garden. Many pilgrims that come from Tibetan villages spend their nights on the monasteryís yards..LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • Pilgrims relaxing on the monastery garden. Many pilgrims that come from Tibetan villages spend their nights on the monasteryís yards. .LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • 16 year old girl crying (middle) after her mother (R) invited me to photograph her in her room that she also uses to receive customers as a prostitute. The room is in a slam behind "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. When she was 13 she was raped by a Khmer man and a bit after that she started taking customers as a prostitute. Virginity is still considered very important for a Cambodian woman, making it very difficult for her to get married to a Khmer man after loosing it. One year ago she also started taking crystal meth, a drug that is comonly used by prostitutes in Phnom Penh because it helps them stay awake the nights they go to bars to pick up foreign customers. The drug also makes her look deranged and over-emotional. .On the left, a neigbor woman that also works part time as a prostitute.
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  • Pilgrims relaxing on the monastery garden. Many pilgrims that come from Tibetan villages spend their nights on the monasteryís yards. .LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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