Urban poor

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The White Building in Cambodia’s Phnom Peng slum was once the pinnacle of modern day living but today it's one of the last monuments to the urbanized poor.

Mumbai 03-2016 108 Bandra station surroundings - slum - Wiktionary

Hillside favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These slums are home to thousands of poor people squatting on public land.

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1/5 of the world's population lives on less than 1 US dollar a day, and despite the UN's best efforts, change is still a slow process.

Urban blight

East St. Louis, Illinois On A Sunday Morning

If the photographs in Stephen Shames’ series _Bronx Boys_ don’t seem to sit comfortably alongside the funny, shareable, imagined-one-day-and-shot-the next photographic projects which we are so accustomed to seeing on the internet, then that’s because they don’t. Rather, _Bronx Boys_ is the product of 23 years spent photographing a group of people living in the Bronx, New York City, and the photographs were taken not to garner likes or shares, but to publicise the plight of one of the poorest…