The other face of Guadeloupe
1 Comments Published by Sébastien on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 10:28 PM.
August 2006, Pointe-à-Pitre suburbs.In 2006, over 200,000 families live in slums, without water and electricity in French overseas regions.
The need for social housing is considerable, because of high rates of unemployment (30 % in average, over 60% in "ZUS" districts) and poverty (high number of recipients of welfare incomes, e.g.10 % of the national total) and the fast demographic growth in this area (which requires an important offer of new housing), because there are much more unsanitary and decrepit housing than in the Hexagon (the French “continent”), because of important natural risks (tropical storms, earthquakes, floods...), because of a GDP per capita three times lower than the national average.
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Great submission. I would have chosen not to put the little boy in the middle. I would have played a little more with the line of the small building leading to the boy. Anyway, you got something here.
Did you try to process your picture in B&W? It must look terrific.