Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities. — The Guardian
From a stove-adjacent toilet to walls crammed with knives, scissors, and precariously stacked storage cases, Benny Lam's photographs of illegally subdivided apartments in Hong Kong are like a gorgeously illustrated case study in how major disease epidemics get started. This Guardian article is a showcase of Lam's Prix Pictect 2017 shortlisted photographs; the video below is a literal page-turner of Lam's book, "TRAPPED," documenting the Hong Kong apartments:
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