Southern Streets

• Prize
  Bronze in Press/Feature Story
• Photographer
  Nitzan Hafner, Israel
• Website
  http://

The old bus station area and the streets around it are a human mosaic of rejected types of society; prostitutes, junkies and drug hubs alongside homeless people and foreign workers. The buildings, constructed ninety years ago, are now falling apart, the stench of urine is pungent, garbage is strewn all over the streets and violence is in abundance. The police often raids, charging into buildings in search of drugs, and this February it announced a â??cleanupâ?? operation in attempt to eradicate crime in this area. An unsuccessful endeavor, it appears.