Cape Town is a city of contrasts. With its cosmopolitan nature, it is indeed the most beleaguered tourist location in southern Africa, but despite all the glitz and beauty, we cannot ignore the huge gap that yawns between wealth and poverty. And it is much deeper from the air than from the street. See the incredible "discrepancy that is sometimes hard to see from a human perspective," as the drone photographer of the Unequal Scenes series, South African Johnny Miller, explains.
Poverty and wealth. They testify to how thin the line between them can sometimes be photos by Johnny Miller from the series Unequal Scenes video with a drone over the South African (legislative) capital Cape Town. On one side we see a settlement where people live on the edge of survival, literally across the road - this is in fact the dividing line between wealth and poverty - and on the other luxurious villas, where people live a carefree life and bathe in pools and money as if five meters away people do not live in great misery.
Cape Town is famous for being caught at crossroads. The image of the city is so bright at one time, and full of misery at another. On the one hand we have business centers, on the other shantytowns.
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As Miller explains, there were many of this kind settlements or parts of the city that were originally thought to be separate, but somewhere in the city, where wealth and poverty mix like sun and rain in April, this was created naturally, and all of this is the result of history or of apartheid. Although system of racial segregation it has not been valid for 22 years, but - as we can clearly and loudly see from a bird's eye view - the reality is unfortunately different, because many inequalities and boundaries (not only in the minds) that stem from the dark times still exist today...
More about the project:
unequalscenes.com
