NZ Visual Diary - entry 398

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Auckland has a visible homeless population, especially along Queen Street where I spend a considerable amount of my time as a photographer.

Today’s entry could be about ‘rough sleeping,’ the term that is often used here for people living on the street.

Instead, today’s theme speaks of companionship, and poignantly of that between rough sleepers and their dogs, a frequent pairing along Queen Street and elsewhere in the city centre.

I have experienced the comfort, joy and solace that a dog brings to a relationship wth its human companion. Far more visceral and reassuring, I suspect, is that enveloping warmth to a rough sleeper.