Begging in Kiev under an advert for the launch issue of one of the many new...
Begging in Kiev under an advert for the launch issue of one of the many new glossy magazines being published in Ukraine. Since independence the living standards of some of the population has improved,...
A decrepit two storey wooden apartment building that still houses families...
A decrepit two storey wooden apartment building that still houses families despite its poor condition and lack of facilities. It stands beside a newly built modern housing estate.
Children play in 'Campo do America', a poor community in Fortaleza, located in...
Children play in 'Campo do America', a poor community in Fortaleza, located in the middle of one of the richest regions of the city. In the background, is the Mansao Macedo high-end estate, where some...
An aerial view of a luxury housing development on Lake Michelle which is...
An aerial view of a luxury housing development on Lake Michelle which is separated from the Sunnydale township by a high wall and an area of grassland.
Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural...
Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural Anatolia. It is rapidly being surrounded by prestigious highrise buildings in Atasehir, an 'Urban Transformation Zone' on th...
A girl stands beside a telegraph pole and a woman selling unspun wool in...
A girl stands beside a telegraph pole and a woman selling unspun wool in Gecekondu, a poor residential area largely inhabited by migrants from rural Anatolia. It is rapidly being surrounded by prestig...
A boy playing in a poor residential area that is rapidly being surrounded by...
A boy playing in a poor residential area that is rapidly being surrounded by prestigious high rise buildings in Atasehir, an 'Urban Transformation Zone' on the Asian side of the city. The housing deve...
A child plays in the street in Sulukule in the Fatih district. Sulukule, a...
A child plays in the street in Sulukule in the Fatih district. Sulukule, a historic Roma district, has been razed after it was declared an 'Urban Transformation Zone' by the municipality and new luxur...
Roma children playing among rubble in a street in Sulukule in the Fatih...
Roma children playing among rubble in a street in Sulukule in the Fatih district. Sulukule, a historic Roma district, has been razed after it was declared an 'Urban Transformation Zone' by the municip...
A man is collecting empty plastic bottles from the rubbish bins on Wangfujing...
A man is collecting empty plastic bottles from the rubbish bins on Wangfujing Street. Behind him is a huge billboard advertisement for luxury watch brand Longines and a stall selling cold drinks.
A gardener who has finished his work in one of the middle class homes in the...
A gardener who has finished his work in one of the middle class homes in the upmarket Munro Drive neighbourhood takes his shopping to a bus stop nearby to head back home into one of the poorer neighbo...
A Porche car passes a man standing at the roadside holding a sign that reads:...
A Porche car passes a man standing at the roadside holding a sign that reads: 'NEED CASH DESPERATELY, WILL DO ANY JOB!!!" Manchester Village is a wealthy town in New England.
Slums surround the newly built Powei district in Northern Mumbai. With...
Slums surround the newly built Powei district in Northern Mumbai. With exclusive residential towers, corporate offices and shopping malls, this district is one of the most desirable in Mumbai.
A woman walks past an illegal migrant sleeping at the roadside. Many of...
A woman walks past an illegal migrant sleeping at the roadside. Many of migrants come to the region to pick olives but this year there is competition for the work. The economic collapse means that wor...
A woman, who collects rubbish for recycling, stands with her bags of scavenged...
A woman, who collects rubbish for recycling, stands with her bags of scavenged material beneath a billboard advertisement for a telecommunications company that features a group of smiling, fashionable...
Rich and poor Roma play cards together on the backstreets in Buzescu. Buzescu...
Rich and poor Roma play cards together on the backstreets in Buzescu. Buzescu is known for it's ultra-wealthy Roma and their bizarre mansions that line the main street. The Roma of Buzescu are part of...
Small houses meet with unfinished mansions in the back streets of Buzescu.
Small houses meet with unfinished mansions in the back streets of Buzescu. Buzescu is known for it's ultra-wealthy Roma and their bizarre mansions that line the main street. The Roma of Buzescu are pa...
A poor man crossing Paradeplatz, with UBS headquarters behind and that of...
A poor man crossing Paradeplatz, with UBS headquarters behind and that of Credit Suisse at right. Vault containing gold and other secrets are thought to lie beneath this square in the centre of Zurich...
Looming over low grade housing, the newly built headquarters for...
Looming over low grade housing, the newly built headquarters for Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), an Indian infrastructure development and finance company, is one of many n...
Shops and crumbling old slum buildings in front of a modern block of flats in...
Shops and crumbling old slum buildings in front of a modern block of flats in the Arya Nagar area of Mumbai. As part of a development program the slum dwellers will eventually be offered housing in th...
Beggars hang around outside as they try to get money from departing guests...
Beggars hang around outside as they try to get money from departing guests from the wedding ceremony of British/Punjabi couple Lindsay and Navneet Singh at a gurdwara in Amritsar.
A child sleeps on a small piece of fabric in an underpass in Mumbai. It is...
A child sleeps on a small piece of fabric in an underpass in Mumbai. It is estimated that there are 11 million street children in India - at least 125,000 children live on the streets of Mumbai.
A tented settlement in the shadow of one of the ultra-modern buildings that...
A tented settlement in the shadow of one of the ultra-modern buildings that make up the Infosys complex in Bangalore. Infosys Technologies Ltd. is an Indian company which provides consulting and IT se...
Canary Wharf in the distance behind the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth,...
Canary Wharf in the distance behind the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, Southwark, London. Most of the estate, which houses some of the poorest people in the country, is due for demolition within the ne...
Canary Wharf in the distance behind the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth,...
Canary Wharf in the distance behind the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth, Southwark, London. Most of the estate, which houses some of the poorest people in the country, is due for demolition within the ne...
In a small slum in Calcutta, a woman washes dishes in a swamp water puddle...
In a small slum in Calcutta, a woman washes dishes in a swamp water puddle that is a good breeding site for malaria mosquitoes. In the background, "New India" middle class modern housing.
Fishermen on a small beach in Back Bay, a poor fishing community that stands...
Fishermen on a small beach in Back Bay, a poor fishing community that stands in stark contrast to the office buildings of Nariman Point business district behind.
A shanty town on the outskirts of Luanda overlooks a Sonangol (the Angolan...
A shanty town on the outskirts of Luanda overlooks a Sonangol (the Angolan state oil company) complex. Angola is nowAfrica's second largest oil-producing nation.
The grounds of the Petionville Golf Club have become a camp for internally...
The grounds of the Petionville Golf Club have become a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) housing at least 50,000 people after an earthquake hit the country. The clubhouse became quarters fo...
28 year old Demba Camara lost his older brother Mawdo when he drowned trying...
28 year old Demba Camara lost his older brother Mawdo when he drowned trying to travel illegally into Europe. He describes the motivation for Mawdo leaving by comparing his fence (on the left) with hi...
Kibera slum, with the high-rise buildings of the city centre behind. Over 25...
Kibera slum, with the high-rise buildings of the city centre behind. Over 25 percent of Nairobi's population live in Kibera, an area that covers less than one percent of the city. Although the populat...
The remains of a homeless camp in the shadow of Green Point Stadium. This area...
The remains of a homeless camp in the shadow of Green Point Stadium. This area is used by a small group of homeless people to cook and socialise. The stadium is one of 10 stadia in South Africa that w...
Morning joggers pass Joseph Maarman as he scratches through rubbish bins in a...
Morning joggers pass Joseph Maarman as he scratches through rubbish bins in a Green Point neighbourhood. Maarman, who lives in the bushes next to the Green Point Stadium, sells items he finds to raise...