The image shows traces of a human being: The blanket, the snow melted by the warmth of the sewer. There is a yet to be told story of a person as well as the story of a financial and political¹⁾“[The term] bios politikos denoted, explicitly only the realm of human affairs, stressing the action praxis, needed to establish and sustain it.” Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 13. system that person is living in. I photograph this image quickly, with my cellphone, as I pass by. I live in the same financial, political system. We share an urban landscape, but there’s a lot that we don’t share. The story isn’t there yet – the circumstances that the blanket leaves traces of has no narrator. The person who might be addressed is outside the frame in this image, outside the boundary of what is being addressed.

On the paths I walk daily, in my urban landscape, I continue to photograph more places for begging. The traces in the streets show that not everyone in the city has been taken into account in the planning of the city’s social life.²⁾The first photo in a series comprising 38 images that I call The Places of Begging. Eleven of these photographs have been published in the text “Giving in Free Movement Europe”, Eurozine, (August 6, 2016). Accessed, April 27, 2016, http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2014-08-06-parsberg-en.html.