Drone images of India, South Africa offer bird’s-eye view of rich-poor divide around world
Global inequality is not so easy to see from the ground, but a photographic essay,
‘Unequal Scenes’, reveals the contrasting homes of the ‘haves and have nots’
A drone image of Mumbai in India, which shows the social inequality between extreme poverty and the luxury,
Photos : Johnny Miler
Luxury homes – some with swimming pools – in the middle-class, tree-lined suburb of Bloubosrand (left), alongside the cramped shacks of the informal settlement of Kya Sands, to the north west of Johannesburg, in South Africa.
The cramped shacks which house than 30,000 poor South Africans, located in the informal settlement of Vusimuzi (left), close to wealthier developments just a stone’s throw away in the township of Tembisa, in the northern province of Gauteng.
This drone image perfectly captures the rich-poor divide in South Africa, with some of the 8,500 cramped shacks in the informal settlement of Vusimuzi – home to more than 30,000 poor residents with little or no sanitation or electricity – situated alongside a wealthier suburb in the township of Tembisa in the northern province of Gauteng.
Another aerial view showing the cramped shacks of the Kya Sands informal settlement on the left of the main road with luxury homes in the middle-class suburb of Bloubosrand on the right, outside Johannesburg, in South Africa.
A drone image above the city of Mumbai, in India, which shows the clear ‘divide’ between the rich and poor, with billion-dollar houses, in the form of skyscrapers, built right beside a vast slum area with shacks covered in blue tarpaulins to help protect them from the monsoon rains.
출처 : 사우스차이나모닝지 - 2018.08.19