A TALE OF TWO SLUMS (India / Indonesia, 2003)
As a part of a long-running project on poverty and globalisation, Stephen Dupont made life-sized portraits, shot on Polaroid stock, in the slums of Mumbai and Jakarta. The reason for choosing these mega-cities was simple: where India has the largest Hindu community in the world, Indonesia has the largest Muslim community. What do the economic, political and religious developments caused by globalisation mean for these people?
