Spectacular Interactive Photo Feature Showcases Slums around the World
- Posted by: Patrick James
- on January 28, 2009 at 9:05 pm
The Places We Live by Jonas Bendiksen is a breath-taking and heart-wrenching interactive photo feature that takes you into slums in Caracas, Venezuela; Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya; Dharavi, Mumbai, India; and Jakarta, Indonesia. I can’t overstate how captivating it is. More than that, though, it offers some perspective on what an economic crisis can really mean.
Via Boing Boing (and Neatorama).
DISCUSSION: 6 Comments
Patrick, thanks for sharing this!! I’m just dipping in and find it captivating. It reminds me of a book called City of Darkness (1993) about life in the walled city of Kowloon, which left an indelible mark. –juner
This is wonderful, I really love this project. It reminds me of the work the NGO I work with does, Video Volunteers. We train communities in slum areas and villages of India how to produce and edit and distribute their own media and tell their own stories.Do check out some of the videos on http://www.ch19.org to get an idea of community media and the realities of the producers’ from the communities, many of them who are from slum areas and live in conditions similar to the ones documented in this photo essay!
Thank you so much for this. I started looking at it while at work but found tears were in my eyes so I’ll have to go back and really wander through these worlds when I get home. Heart-wrenching is an understatement.
This really IS incredible!
Thanks a bunch! What a great way to present such a compelling message . . .
That’s great, thank you! What do you think – are these people at airoots.org right when call Dharavi a ’self-generating post-industrial city’ (which sounds as something cute, instead of sounding awful as it looks)?