The price of progress

One of the biggest challenges for developing countries is overpopulation. Governments often fail to provide sufficient facilities and all the necessary rights for a large number of people. Consequently, low-income families engage their younger members in the workforce to supplement their household income. However, sadly, even in hazardous workplaces, the necessary safety measures are not properly ensured.

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Country
City
Picture Year
Photographer
Talents
Team
Quote
If fear is the lens, fear is what you see
Sophia Nasif
London
These photographs are from a 14-hour trip I took with some incredible fishermen from Raa Atoll, Maldives. We left at 2:30 am, and returned just before sunset. Titled ‘Masdhoni (Fishing Boat)’, this is a project that I am hoping to expand further over the next few years. In this image, one of the…
Anastasia Fedotova
Port Louis
They sit in the quiet, carrying the weight of countless untold stories. They are the keepers of a strength that doesn’t shout, that doesn’t seek validation. Their silence is not emptiness; it is filled with the echoes of lives lived through struggle, love, loss, and endurance. In their eyes rests…
Roman Kosh
Burgas
Lunar energy of water and Solar energy of youth. Spontaneous street photo.
Mark Blickley
New York
A visual response I sent to a friend after we had a silly, heated July 4th discussion over why I prefer tea to coffee in the morning, because he reproached me as an un-American Anglophile.