THE POVERTY LINE

What does it mean to be hungry and poor? With such divergence across countries as to what the "poverty line" means, Stefen Chow and Yin Hui-Li set out to visualize what poverty looks like by highlighting something that everyone can understand -- food. The result was a dramatic tour of what people might be able to buy, from country to country, existing at sustinence level. 

Above, in Australia: 7.52 Australian dollars, or 8.02 U.S. dollars (as of Feb. 23), of avocados. 

Stefan Chow

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