The secret life of the sin City.
Swiss photographer Christian Lutz first came to Las Vegas at the peak of the economic downturn, in the winter of 2011.
After he visited sin City every year for three years to capture the picture of what local residents affected by the global financial crisis. His images are then entered in a book called Insert Coins (Insert coins”), which became a kind of ode to what lies behind the neon signs and flashing icons on the slot machines.
1. A man, wrapped in a rescue thermal blanket, looks at one of the billboards.
2. Sad kid squeezes his Teddy bear, sipping a cocktail with frozen juice.
3. Young couple walking past a homeless man on a deserted Las Vegas-the Strip area of Las Vegas, where the majority of the largest hotels and casinos.
4. Feet scantily clad girls standing on the bar. Many girls who have come to Las Vegas to try his luck in the quest to become a star of the entertainment industry, begin with these.
5. The pair, smeared with gold paint, sleeping on the streets of Las Vegas.
6. “I first came to Las Vegas in the midst of crisis, in the winter of 2011. The situation could not leave me indifferent, so I just had to photograph it all. And I did,” said Christian Lutz.
7. Photos Christian — a kind of ode to what lies behind the bright neon signs of Las Vegas. And if they flash in an attempt to impress fans of adventures in that behind the doors of a casino, it will open the shortest path to the so-called American dream, that in contrast for the shiny advertising billboards hiding the real, categorical American reality.
8. A couple of people dressed in costume, ducks, lying on the ground with bottles of beer in his hand.
9. A pedestrian bridge. A homeless man sits on a skateboard, wrapped in a sheet. Before him a glass of wine and a cardboard sign that says the word Determination (“the firm intention”).
10. Freaks are people too: a man in a dress sitting on the streets of American gambling capital.
