Images from the air showed the difference between rich and poor
With the help of a drone photographing how people live with different levels of wealth.
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Incredible aerial photographs have recorded a sharp contrast between rich and poor around the world.
The photos show the boundaries of residential areas with different levels of wealth from the height of bird flight. Project photographer johnny Miller is called “Unequal subjects”. With the help of a drone he takes, how people live in South Africa, Kenya, Mexico, India, USA and other countries.
“When six years ago I moved to South Africa from America, the inequality impossible to ignore,” said the photographer.
“From the moment we landed in Cape town you are surrounded by shacks. Literally tin shacks surround the airport you drive about 10 minutes, until you reach a more affluent suburbs, where they live a privileged people (including me),” says Miller.
This situation the photographer has seen in many countries of the world visited. As a result, in April 2016 was born the project, which Miller hopes to remind politicians and the public about the problem of inequality.
Locations for future shooting, the photographer finds using census data, the stories of the pilots and different maps.
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