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Homeless man sleeping on the old tram-line on Batman Avenue, Melbourne. This photograph shows a homeless man sleeping on the old tram shelter on Batman Avenue in Melbourne in the 1990s. According to the photographer William Bowers, 'He used to sleep there regularly.' Batman Avenue no longer exists. In the 1990s William would walk through the City of Melbourne and the other suburbs to take candid photographs, 'moments of life in the city that took his fancy.' They were all taken between 1992-1997.

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