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tags: on-location photography, photojournalism photography, shanghai, china, 2004, street photography, 2005 and 2006

Photographer: Photojournaliste.ca
Style: photojournalism, street photography
Location: Shanghai, China

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Everywhere around Shanghai, like the unbreakable code of an underground society, workers post their phone numbers all over the walls, side walks, and any other place where they hope someone will call them for work. Most are illegal migrants… and many of these phone numbers are fake ID services.

tags: street photography, photojournalism photography, on-location photography, shanghai, china, 2004, 2005 and 2006