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Drone images of India, South Africa offer bird’s-eye view of rich-poor divide around world

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A drone image of Mumbai in India, which shows the social inequality between extreme poverty, in the form of blue-tarpaulin covered shacks on the left, and luxury properties, on the right. Photos: Johnny Miller
A drone image of Mumbai in India, which shows the social inequality between extreme poverty, in the form of blue-tarpaulin covered shacks on the left, and luxury properties, on the right. Photos: Johnny Miller
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Global inequality is not so easy to see from the ground, but a photographic essay, ‘Unequal Scenes’, reveals the contrasting homes of the ‘haves and have nots’

A series of images captured from satellites in the Earth’s atmosphere has highlighted the social imbalance on Earth.

Of course, differences in social factors, such as access to education, health, hygiene and infrastructure are not entirely visible, but it is a harsh reality.

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Luxury homes – some with swimming pools – in the middle-class, tree-lined suburb of Bloubosrand (left), alongside the cramped shacks of the informal settlement of Kya Sands, to the north west of Johannesburg, in South Africa.
Luxury homes – some with swimming pools – in the middle-class, tree-lined suburb of Bloubosrand (left), alongside the cramped shacks of the informal settlement of Kya Sands, to the north west of Johannesburg, in South Africa.

For an outsider, the concept of social inequality is not very evident except to those that are experiencing it.

Photographer Johnny Miller says: “Discrepancies in how people live are sometimes hard to see from the ground.

Discrepancies in how people live are sometimes hard to see from the ground … Often communities of extreme wealth and privilege will exist just metres from squalid conditions and shack dwellings
Johnny Miller, photographer

“Often communities of extreme wealth and privilege will exist just metres from squalid conditions and shack dwellings.”

The cramped shacks which house than 30,000 poor South Africans, located in the informal settlement of Vusimuzi (left), close to wealthier developments just a stone’s throw away in the township of Tembisa, in the northern province of Gauteng.
The cramped shacks which house than 30,000 poor South Africans, located in the informal settlement of Vusimuzi (left), close to wealthier developments just a stone’s throw away in the township of Tembisa, in the northern province of Gauteng.

For a recent project, Miller photographed different cities in the United States, Mexico, Tanzania, Kenya, and India.

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