Slum sanctuaries: For six weeks in 2005, photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen lived in a tiny sweltering room in Kibera, the largest slum in Nairobi, Kenya. "I got interested to break some of my own stereotypes of these places," he says. "What I really wanted to focus on was not the extremities, the worst poverty, or the worst slums, but on how people manage to construct daily lives in the midst of such challenges." In Kibera, he visited churches assembled from the same makeshift material as many of the homes: tin plates and mud. Above, Sunday morning worship brings together the community.
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GRANT
5:36 PM ET
November 8, 2009
This may be one of the best
This may be one of the best views I have gotten from this site to date.
FREETRADER
2:06 AM ET
November 9, 2009
Planet Slum
Great photo essay -- realitively non-polemical, and partly as a result, ultimately uplifting.
ENGUZEL
3:28 PM ET
November 21, 2009
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WBEENO
2:28 PM ET
November 9, 2009
Amazing
Wow, that is truly amazing dude. Pretty intersting article.
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E043969
2:56 PM ET
November 9, 2009
Map Kibera Project
http://www.mapkibera.org/
PRESSGROVE
8:59 PM ET
November 9, 2009
@ Map Kiberia Project
I am familiar with your work and I applaud it. I wish your project the very best... cannot wait for the outcome...
TIGHIMOGPOSPORO
10:04 PM ET
November 10, 2009
Chris
Really moving piece. It makes you kind of rethink all the efforts to industrialization and attempts at improving humanity's global culture and "sophistication". Do we really need all that tv?
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TIM_MALF
7:52 AM ET
November 27, 2009
Agree ko ana.
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PEYTONOBRIEN
1:20 AM ET
November 11, 2009
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ADAN8888
11:39 AM ET
November 20, 2009
Nice Work
Great piece. Very national Geographic-ish. Very professional, I like it.
ENGUZEL
4:00 PM ET
November 21, 2009
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BOBINNM
9:24 PM ET
December 12, 2009
People are people everywhere.
It is so true, you can not put a stamp on someone and call them impoverished. Poor is simply an economic condition. Pride in self, providing a home (and not just a place to live) and food give people in even the worst conditions motivation to get up the next day and do it all again. I have been to many countries on this small planet and even in the worst of the worst places, someone was working their asses off to provide for their families. More power to them. Peace.