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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
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
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