Jonas Bendiksen provide us with photos from four different slum areas which he visited: Caracas, Venezuela; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Jakarta, Indonesia. He offers us a view of various aspects of slum life through images and narration he acquired while visiting 16 different homes in these cities.
This is Dharavi, Mumbai's largest slum, and it's about to change forever. Once a mangrove swamp on the edge of Mumbai, more than one million people now live in these five-hundred-and-fifty acres. ...
World Environment Day was established by the UN in 1972 to give a human face to environmental issues. But as these images show, developing countries suffer the worst effects of waste and pollution. Here, a trash-covered creek in Manila, Philippines, where slums often adjoin rubbish dumps. The country's poorest sift through the garbage to find discarded objects they can sell on or re-use, or even scraps of food to eat