Siou is a L'Itinéraire vendor who sells the magazine on the corner of Mont-Royal and Bordeaux in Montréal, Canada. Here he presents portraits he illustrated from photos in an old magazine he came across celebrating the loyal service of factory workers at the Horne division, a smelting facility in northern Québec. He explains why this had personal significance for him, how it related to his own life and memories of his father, and how it is a document of working class men from a bygone era and industry. Later, in a quest to understand what each of the portrait subjects did at the factory, Siou asked his customers to describe their responsibilities from their peculiar job titles alone.

The miners in my mind: L'Itinéraire vendor Siou’s portrait project of Québec factory workers

Everyone who is a part of the global street paper network knows what a street paper is – that extends to the staff that put each publication together and those who buy them. But the people who truly know what a street paper is – what it means – are those who sell them. Here, a collection of street paper vendors – from North Macedonia to Canada – tell us, in their own words, what a street paper is, personally to them.

“The street paper saved my life” – what street papers are in the words of those who sell them

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