Pride and prejudice: A man named Ritze Silva lives in the Caracas barrios with his wife and three daughters. When Bendiksen visited them, Silva grew very animated talking about his family and his plans to paint his home. "Some people talk about their problems," the photojournalist recalls. "Some people talk about their hopes and ambitions. It's something journalists and photographers usually miss -- we overfocus on the negative. We depict an existence you can't even relate to. But there's a lot of ambition in the slums."
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GRANT
5:36 PM ET
November 8, 2009
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FREETRADER
2:06 AM ET
November 9, 2009
Planet Slum
Great photo essay -- realitively non-polemical, and partly as a result, ultimately uplifting.
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3:28 PM ET
November 21, 2009
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2:28 PM ET
November 9, 2009
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2:56 PM ET
November 9, 2009
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8:59 PM ET
November 9, 2009
@ Map Kiberia Project
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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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7:52 AM ET
November 27, 2009
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1:20 AM ET
November 11, 2009
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11:39 AM ET
November 20, 2009
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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.