Slum house

Located in the centre of Mumbai and often referred to as the city’s heart, Dharavi is unique among slums. This photographer walks you through it.

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New Delhi, India...Children play outside their slum homes, opposite their school. They attend for half a day because the school doesn't have enough space to accommodate for everyone.

The narrowness of alleys in a slum A city can suffer of vascular stenosis. Such terms are used when the density of traffic is clogging the roads. One speaks of a traffic infarct when an area is blocked by traffic jams. In this metaphor, the traffic is the blood in the vessels (the streets) of the city. Yet there is something wrong with this comparison. Blood vessels constrict by atherosclerosis, gradually diminishing the blood stream. In the case of the traffic infarct the cause is not a…

Abandoned house in old Tbilisi

What would you do if you had to make a home with whatever you found around you? What would it look like? You can often find the answer by looking at the constructions of homeless people, who take 'live locally' to its root level, repurposing the detritus of their community. Or take a look at the work of artists Oliver Boberg and Peter Bialobrzeski whose photographs of buildings in poor urban neighborhoods of the Southern hemi- sphere illustrate incredible inventiveness and resourefulness…

Slums of India and the areas of slum and shanty towns in India has been of great interest for the photographer ...

A group of travelers witnessed the heartbreaking situation of the people living in the slums of Smokey Mountain in Tondo, Manila.

Dharavi, Mumbai