February 21, 2013

Hong Kong life in 40 square feet

From PetaPixel:
… the human rights organization Society for Community Organization recently commissioned a series of photographs showing what a number of unacceptable living spaces (in Hong Kong) look like when viewed from directly overhead.
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According to the SoCO, over 100,000 people live in tiny “cubicle apartments” in the city. These are 40-square-foot living spaces created by dividing already-small apartments into multiple units.  Residents go about their lives in these confined spaces, sleeping on one corner, eating in another, storing their belongings in a third, and perhaps watching a TV that’s found in a fourth.
SoCO’s wide-angle photographs capture how cramped these spaces really are by showing everything within them in a single frame. The images were likely captured by simply fixing a camera with a wide-angle lens to the ceiling, and then triggering a shot remotely (the photographer cannot be seen in the image).

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