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Homeless March (in November)

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I always enjoy watching other photographers contort themselves for a picture. This is a photo I took of Photographer Russ Roca taking a photo. I've often wondered what I look like when I'm working. Anyway, today Homeless people and their supporters marched through the streets of Downtown Long Beach - in their words, " to bring awareness of the 4,500 homeless in the city." - The ironic thing is that the only people around to see the march were the people who live there - and they already know about the homeless because they see them everyday. I think they should have marched on a weekday when city officials and business people could have seen them. - Oh well, I guess if they were good at PR they wouldn't be homeless. Click here to see more pictures of the march>>

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This blog is a journal of Long Beach, California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It will be updated frequently with the pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram.

Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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