While riding the T2 tramway from Bobigny, France to Saint-Denis, France on March 31, 2010, I took these photos of tired riders, an angry driver annoyed with a handicapped passenger who'd pulled the emergency cord, the famous Cité de Quatre Mille in La Courneuve, in the process of demolition, Muslim butcheries, scrap metal yards, the bleak landscape within sight range of Paris itself, and finally, three shocking photos of the new "bidonville" (shantytown) which has popped up near my home in Paris-Saint-Denis, France. The département Seine-Saint-Denis is the most populous and lively, albeit poor and of bad repute, in all of the Paris/Greater Paris region ("Ile-de-France"). The residents of the shantytown were astonished to see me, dressed for a long day of meetings, enter and take photos, being sure not to steal any souls and photography any actual faces. "Are you the police?" an urchin asked. "No," I said. "Problème," he kept saying, meaning that my presence there was not welcome.