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PRIVATE 48 | Economic inequalities

30 March 2010 PRIVATE

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 08-09 (08-11)

Martin Holik | Albanian Dump

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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

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PRIVATE 48, p. 12-13 (12-15)

Bertrand Meunier | Hong Kong’s “cage homes”

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 16-17 (16-19)

Franky Verdickt | Chinese Migrant Workers

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 20-21 (20-23)

Jonathan Taggart | Split Like a Crutch

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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Jonathan Taggart, Split Like a Crutch, from PRIVATE 48 – Economic inequalities, pp. 20-23 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 town an hour’s drive away […]

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PRIVATE 48, p. 24-25 (24-27)

Robert Knoth | Back to square one

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 28-29 (28-31)

Massimiliano Clausi | Harafish

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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

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PRIVATE 48, p. 32-33 (32-35)

Piergiorgio Casotti | Arctic Spleen

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 36-37 (36-39)

Roberto Boccaccino | Ritdiena

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 40-41 (40-43)

Rian Dundon | Life in Limerick

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 44-45 (44-47)

William Daniels | Faded Tulips

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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PRIVATE 48, p. 48-49 (48-51)

Nanni Fontana | Violence in Honduras

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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In Honduras crime is endemic. Violent crime is rampant; the per capita murder rate the second in the world rankings. (Nanni Fontana)

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PRIVATE 48, p. 52-53 (52-55)

Stephen JB Kelly | Qi Lihe district

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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

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PRIVATE 48, p. 56-57 (56-59)

Rodrigo Cruz | The Promised Land

30 March 2010 PRIVATE Photographers

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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.

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