Secret Sleepers (Daily Life 2021, by Mark Henley) - Swiss Press Award
Mark Henley
As dusk falls at the end of October, and a tram passes overhead, a parallel universe under the Pont des Acasias on the Arve river as it flows through Geneva. This hidden group of tents is inhabited by youths from Morocco, Algeria and Libya, some barely eighteen.
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2021
Mark Henley
An ongoing personal documentary project started on discovering that people were sleeping rough hidden by trees and under bridges along the Arve River as it runs through Geneva, close to the centre, just a stone's throw from Rolex's headquarters or the tower of the RTS. It was first published by l¨'illustré near the end of November, raising the issue of homelessness, and winter approaching.
