This week Photojournalism Now: Friday Round Up goes lower back to Hong Kong with Benny Lam's Trapped, plus a few private insights from a recent trip.
Photo essay:
Benny Lam - Trapped
According to the Society for Community Organisation, in Hong Kong extra than 2 hundred,000 people live in what are defined as 'Coffin Cubicles,' tiny, cramped areas that residence individuals and also families with youngsters. Pressured through unemployment, rising housing prices and overcrowding, many discover themselves with little preference. Greedy landlords divide up rooms and buildings, illegally, and price more than $USD250 a month for the privilege of living in a room the size of a brush closet.
Photographer Benny Lam's divulge is stunning. He advised National Geographic's Proof that via his collection known as ?Trapped,? He "desires to light up the suffocating dwellings that exist wherein the lighting fixtures of Hong Kong?S prosperity don?T reach. He hopes through making the tenants and their houses visible, greater people will begin taking note of the social injustices of their situations.
?You may wonder why we ought to care, as these people aren't part of our lives,? Lam writes on his Facebook web page. ?They are exactly the people who come into your existence every unmarried day: they're serving you because the waiters in the restaurants wherein you devour, they're the safety guards in the purchasing department shops you wander round, or the cleaners and the delivery men at the streets you bypass through. The handiest difference among us and them is [their homes]. This is a question of human dignity.?
(C) All pics Benny Lam
You can study his tale and view extra pictures at National Geographic Proof.
Observation:
Hong Kong Domestic Workers' Day Off
One Sunday after I become in Hong Kong lately I noticed those congregations of women. They have been sitting at the sidewalk, on overpasses, outside resorts and up-marketplace shopping centres. At first I idea they had been homeless, despite the fact that the sheer numbers refuted that belief. Quickly I found out their testimonies.
Thousands of often girl Filipino migrant people deliver meals, drink and track. They take a seat with their buddies on pieces of cardboard spending the complete day outside, and regularly staying till late into the night. They consume, dance, play playing cards and chat about their lives and their households who they have left behind - often these girls ought to leave their personal children and journey afar to earn cash for the own family.
Most of those women are abused through their employers - underpaid, underfed and forced to live in accommodation that in some instances takes the form of a mat on the floor of a closet. The majority work sixteen hour days.
But a few domestic employees are starting to organise and in latest months there were protests for stepped forward operating conditions.
Yet another glimpse into a aspect of Hong Kong that is in stark comparison to the tourism brochures.
(C) All pictures Alison Stieven-Taylor 2017
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