“Unequal Scenes” gives a bird’s eye view on the lines of inequality so clearly drawn in South Africa.
Never before has the division between rich and poor been so easy to grasp. Activists can thank South African artist Johnny Miller, who captured the following photos with a drone to illuminate the vast difference between living conditions among the classes.
The project, titled “Unequal Scenes,” began as a Facebook post that eventually went viral, reports PetaPixel. After the photo of the Masiphumelele community and its surroundings in the Republic of South Africa was shared more than 1,000 times, Miller knew he was on to something. He went on to capture many other, similar photographs and videos across South Africa.
“Discrepancies in how people live are sometimes hard to see from the ground. The beauty of being able to fly is to see things from a new perspective – to see things as they really are,” writes Miller. “Looking straight down from a height of several hundred meters, incredible scenes of inequality emerge.”
The crisp images clearly show physical divides between ultra-rich neighborhoods and downtrodden shacks. Sometimes the divides are wetlands, other times rich and poor are separated by an electric fence.
According to the artist, some of the communities were “designed with separation in mind,” while others grew “more or less organically.” The division is what remains of Apartheid policies which were enforced by law 22 years ago. Change may have taken place since then but in reality,
“many of these barriers, and the inequalities they have engendered, still exist.”
Following are some eye-opening photos from the collection:
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
Credit: Johnny Miller
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Many of these settlements were formed by a cynical elite black government when they bussed in people from outlying areas immediately before elections. People were promised jobs that never existed and lifestyles that were unattainable. They were then left with no means of returning home, so they have made the best of a shitty situation.This does not change the act that life is miserable there, but by contrast, the people in the wealthy suburbs next door had a very different journey to get there. They had education, drive perseverance and hard work on their journey and have mortgages and Hire purchased cars, so are enslaved by the same system that abused the other side of the fence. My point is – ALL ARE SLAVES TO THE SAME SYSTEM – just in different ways. I can guarantee that the people in the shacks are free in different ways to those in the macmansions. These differences exist in all countries, fly drones in most cities and the same scenes will be observable. Stop trying to blame, that is backwards looking – find solutions and move forward. I took my children out of Africa to avoid them drowning in a sea of looking for someone to blame and retributionist policies. And boy, are they grateful every day.
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