Photo Award: This Is What Foreclosure Looks Like

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Siobhan O'Connor
Author of No More Dirty Looks.

February 16, 2009 • 11:35 am PST
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On Friday, the World Press Photo Awards were announced. The Photo of the Year, by Time's Anthony Suau, shows a cop casing a foreclosed home in Cleveland, where one in six houses have met a similar fate. And because pictures speak a thousand words, we won't get into how horrifying it is that the cop looks like he's about to shoot someone.

For the complete photo essay, click here. To get a better idea how bad the foreclosure crisis has gotten in Cleveland, click here, and here.

(Image: Anthony Suau, for TIME.)

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