PRIVATE 48 | Economic inequalities

  • PRIVATE 48 | Economic inequalities

    PRIVATE 48 | Economic inequalities

    Cover photo: © Anna Kåri

  • Martin Holik

    Martin Holik | Albanian Dump

    In Durres in Albania there’s a big garbage dump that lies on the shores of the contaminated Porto Romano area. Continue reading →

  • Bertrand Meunier

    Bertrand Meunier | Hong Kong’s “cage homes”

    One of the bleak, shocking realities of life in Hong Kong, is the humiliating situation of men living in cages. Hong Kong’s “cage homes” are dormitories where you’ll find rows of bunk beds, each enclosed in wire netting, in which the tenants store their belongings. Continue reading →

  • Franky Verdickt

    Franky Verdickt | Chinese Migrant Workers

    China is in constant demand for workers to build new cities that will accommodate the emerging middle class. A flux of migrant workers from western China seeks prosperity in the richer eastern coastal part of China. Continue reading →

  • Jonathan Taggart

    Jonathan Taggart | Split Like a Crutch

    he reserves of the In-SHUCK-ch Nation are scattered along both sides of British Columbia’s Lillooet River between the towns of Pemberton and Harrison Lake. Like many of Canada’s indigenous communities, the settlements of the In-SHUCK-ch exist in isolation, the nearest … Continue reading →

  • Robert Knoth

    Robert Knoth | Back to square one

    In the summer of 2001, only months before 9/11, photographer Robert Knoth and writer Antoinette de Jong travelled on horseback into the remote areas of Northern Afghanistan where the population was suffering from severe drought. Continue reading →

  • Massimiliano Clausi

    Massimiliano Clausi | Harafish

    Living standards in Egypt are low by international standards, and have declined consistently since 1990. Continue reading →

  • Piergiorgio Casotti

    Piergiorgio Casotti | Arctic Spleen

    East Greenland has the highest suicide rate among young people. The increase in suicides could be explained the destruction of their traditional ways of life. Suicidal thoughts occur more often in young people who have grown up in homes marked by a poor emotional environment. Continue reading →

  • Roberto Boccaccino

    Roberto Boccaccino | Ritdiena

    Ritdiena is a latvian word that means tomorrow. Latvia is suffering the gloomiest economic crisis in Europe. Its foreign debt is increasing and people face unemployment and salary cuts. Ritdiena is a project for Latvia’s new generation. Continue reading →

  • Rian Dundon

    Rian Dundon | Life in Limerick

    Since 2001, a major feud between rival organized crime families has led to serious gang related violence. Actual war zones exist in Limerick, in some of the country’s most infamous public housing estates. Continue reading →

  • William Daniels

    William Daniels | Faded Tulips

    In 2005 the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan brought hope for democracy. Motivated by social injustice, the Kyrgyz people overthrew President Askar Akayev’s authoritarian and corrupted regime and elected Kurmanbek Bakiyev, an opposition leader and former Prime Minister. Continue reading →

  • Nanni Fontana

    Nanni Fontana | Violence in Honduras

    In Honduras crime is endemic. Violent crime is rampant; the per capita murder rate the second in the world rankings. Continue reading →

  • Stephen JB Kelly

    Stephen JB Kelly | Qi Lihe district

    Qi Lihe district sits awkwardly on the outskirts of Lanzhou, the most destitute area of this heavily polluted industrial city in northwest China. Continue reading →

  • Rodrigo Cruz

    Rodrigo Cruz | The Promised Land

    Every year thousands of Central Americans from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras illegally enter Mexico via the southern border with the goal of reaching the United States and a better life. Continue reading →

  • Kenzaburo Fukuhara

    Kenzaburo Fukuhara | Danchi

    After the Second World War, Tokyo city and its urban planning office decided to pay more attention to providing housing to migrants and the working class. Continue reading →

  • Ilan Godfrey

    Ilan Godfrey | Remade

    South Africa is entering a second period of significant change since the end of Apartheid. I was in Johannesburg for this momentous occasion and made my vote on the 22nd April 2009. Continue reading →

  • Benjamin Rusnak

    Benjamin Rusnak | Dreams & Tempests

    Tourists may dream of postcard landscapes, but paradise can be destroyed by the deadly tempests the poor living in the tropics must face. Continue reading →

  • Max Sher

    Max Sher | Magnitka

    Magnitogorsk or Magnitka, a Russian mill town of 420,000 people is one of the most polluted places on Earth. Founded in 1929 at the behest of Stalin, the Magnitogorsk steel mill was originally modelled on the US steel cities of Gary and Pittsburgh. Continue reading →

  • Bijoy Chowdhury

    Bijoy Chowdhury | Revolt against SEZ

    Singur and Nandigram are two villages situated in one of India’s most remarkable States. Totally dependent on agriculture, these two villages have recently fought against the Government, which threatens to snatch their only means of survival – fertile land. Continue reading →

  • Anna Kåri

    Anna Kåri | Death in Birth

    Just a few hours after entering the largest maternity hospital in Sierra Leone a 26 year old healthy woman dies just after giving birth to a baby girl, her second child. Continue reading →

PRIVATE 48
Economic inequalities

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The pictures of this issue show economic inequalities as they are today in a way which breaks the stupor of indifference generated by watching antiseptic clean TV programmes of the main news channels. These pictures are a wake-up call, a reminder that we need to look again more closely, become more aware of what is in the real world rather than hide behind our inner screens of routine lives – so boring for the rich, so harmful for those excluded. (Raymond Saner)

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