From Here and Now

More Lagos Island. I’d say it’s pretty damm crowded here in Lagos.

Lagos Island. There is a need for debate on what to do about slums or , to use the more polite term, informal settlements, in Africa given the current rates of urbanisation and population growth which are unprecedented in human history anywhere in this world. Slums always accompany the process of urbanisation. It is generally estimated by many economists that more than half the world’s people now live in “slum” areas of cities and work in the informal economy. -Gilbert Nii-Okai Addy

Sharing Shoes. Both girls lost an opposite leg in the earthquake in Port-Au-Prince. At the MSF facility where they were recovering, learning to walk, learning to trust, learning to love themselves again, they shared a pair of sandles too..

Sewage. Let’s start with all the crud and muck we throw into the water pipes, after we wash dishes, clothes, ourselves and even after we have sex. See upper left. This water in Mexico City ends up in one of many treatment plants later, cleansed, filter, eaten by bacterial microorganisms and then used for irrigation, canal filling and industry, including shopping centers.

Canal de Chalco. Filled with human waste, it is one of many small tributaries still running water across the city of Mexico. This one run parallel to a recreational and sports park in Xochimilco. This canal eventually leads to the Canal Nacional, a major former river now carrying sewage. Still garbage is the main source of pollution and a mirror of Mexican society.

Cinco de Mayo.
To aim
is to take oneself too seriously
by focusing without instead of within
re arrange and re member
aim…i am
the right letters are there
it’s the wrong composition.
-Saul Williams