Mikel Aristregi’s Photos of Homeless Alcoholics in Mongolia

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Way Down and Out in Ulan Bator

Mikel Aristregi went to Mongolia to document street children. Instead, he found homeless alcoholics living underground among the pipes that run beneath the streets of Ulan Bator.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/underground-and-off-the-radar-in-ulan-bator/

“Seems like the problem of the street children had been more or less eradicated because of the work of many international and local groups,” said Mr. Aristregi, 37, of Spain. “But nobody was taking care of those people.”