- The people live in the slums of Sahiwal, Pakistan's 22nd largest city, which has a population of around 270,000
- More than 60 per cent of the city's residents live in extreme poverty, surviving on as little as £1.30 a day
- United Arab Emirates photographer and professor Sohail Karmani wanted to show how people survive in poverty
- He shot expressive portraits of everyone from children to the elderly, to mystics, snake-charmers and fruit-sellers
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
Friday, July 24, 2015
Portraits of poverty: Powerful images capture the children, elderly, mystics and snake-charmers in Pakistan who survive against the odds on as little as £1.30 a day
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