Jonas Bendiksen | The Places We Live The facade of an apartment building in Barrio 23 de Enero. The areas apartment blocks have been home to communities of squatters since the late 1950s, and the area has played an important role in s (...)
ocial and political events in the country. Caracas, Venezuela. 2006. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen | The Places We Live A girl plays in Laxmi Chawl, a neighborhood of Dharavi. The little lightbulbs are put out for a wedding. Mumbai, India. 2006.
Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home (...)
to somewhere between 600,000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos