Urban poverty photography

I think it is almost impossible to realize an up-scale world without poverty. Even if we change the appearance of the houses in slums, it will not change the fact of poor. However, I really hope that this could become true.

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While many areas of Asia are fast developing, many desperate citizens in Manila in the Philippines are forced to find shelter in in whatever makeshift homes they can find in the slums.

Dharavi, in Bombay, in the Biggest Slum in Asia.

India tenement homes

The number of people considered to be living in the most destitute conditions is expected to drop below 10 percent of the world’s population this year.

Photo about Poor Indian family living in a makeshift shack by the side of the road in Bihar, India. Image of poor, temporary, poverty - 13235056

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1986 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, Tom Gralish, The Philadelphia Enquirer “I like any kind of food. Whatever’s there, I buy it. Hot dog one day, the next Chinese food, roast beef sandwich.” — Walter, Philadelphia, homeless In the winter of 1985, Philadelphia Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish steps out or his life and into the lives of the city’s street people. "I didn't know much about these guys. So I decided to show what their day is like. I wanted it to be straightforward 'doc…