Nic Bezzina, Khlong Toey (Doco/Photojournalism (2018))

Only a few metro stops from Bangkok’s luxurious malls of the city center, one arrives at Klong Toey, where Bangkok hides its slum in the same district with high-end hotels, parks and its Stock Exchange. Located on a plot of land belonging to the Port Authority of Thailand, the Klong Toey slum, one of the country’s largest slum communities, covers an area of around a square mile and is home to around 100,000 people. This project documents the lives behind Bangkok’s biggest slum, and looks at the Khlong Toey area as a character itself. With 100,000 people crammed into one square kilometre, such intense overcrowding means that at peak times there are bodies just about everywhere: slumped on motorbikes, sitting in doorways or leaning out of windows; bodies, big and small, clogging up what are already claustrophobically narrow alleyways. Because their homes are so tiny, not to mention hot, people do in public what they would normally do in private - things like cook, eat, hang washing, deal drugs and have heated personal arguments. It's hectic and unavoidably intimate

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