Where we live matters


  • Photographer
    Philippe Schneider
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2013

We often perceive slums as dark dens of poverty, where criminals, juvenile delinquents, and squatters wander aimlessly amongst ramshackle, makeshift structures. “Where we live matters” is a project about a slum community living in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, in which 45 percent of the population lives in slum neighborhoods. In 2007 the world’s population was more urban than rural. Of this urban swell, one out three lives in a slum. The project aims to challenge the viewer perceptions of slum dwellers because irrespective of a person residence, as human we all have similar basic needs, hopes and fears.

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