The Backyards of Miami and Miami Beach

Miami Beach: The sunny side of life - celebrities and the rich, tourists and the spring-break addicted college students. But hidden behind this "ideology of advertisement" there are the backyards of Miami Beach. The invisible and homeless, the spotless, aseptic fashion-district with its almost "fascistic" aesthetics and the the small streets in between, dirty and falling apart. Here the crisis of economy had arrived years ago - and the new, bigger economic crisis just kicks it one step nearer towards the edge of (non) livability. In this small photo-essay I have concentrated on these different moods and feelings in simple black & white shots. The shots where taken within several hours during three days in an area reaching from the fashion & design district in downtown Miami towards the southern end of Miami Beach.

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Keywords economic crisis, tom, reportage, shabby, shadows, miami beach, homless, blackshoe, cityscape, black and white, livability, community