The Home of the Homeless

Dewey Ajioka's sketches of the homeless on the 3rd Street Promenade.
Queena Kim

Off-Ramp® | August 19, 2006

89-year old Dewey Ajioka has spent the last ten years sketching the homeless on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim talks with him and his models.

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