• Asia’s largest slum situated in the centre of Mumbai, India. One million people live and work in just under a square mile, making it one of the most densely populated areas in the world. Although an area of massive displacement and poverty Dharavi also has thriving industries with less than 10% unemployment. It also has strong communities, with 27 temples, 11 mosques and 6 churches. The population continues to grow despite the lack of space.

  • The sun sets over Dharavi
  • Waterpipes that housed over 800 families have been removed forcing them to move to another slum
  • Children play among rubbish the street
  • Men sort hides outside a leather workshop in Dharavi
  • Men work in a metal recycling workshop in Dharavi
  • Food is prepared for workers in Dharavi
  • Men at work in a in a plastic recycling workshop
  • Men in a plastic recycling workshop in Dharavi
  • Men making sacks in a workshop in Dharavi
  • Men in a rubber workshop
  • Women in the Kumbharwada pottery area of Dharavi
  • A man works in the Kumbharwada pottery area
  • Men make clothes in Dharavi
  • A boy works in a bakery
  • A woman in her shelter
  • Rubbish in the street in the Dharavi
  • An ox cart delivers kerosene in Dharavi
  • Women queue for kerosene
  • Children haggle with a toy seller in Dharavi
  • <> on November 14, 2011 in Mumbai, India.
  • A child eats a chapatti in Dharavi
  • A woman washes her feet in the street in Dharavi
  • Three year old Rajisee in her home in Dharavi
  • A young girl delivers tiffin - a lunchbox
  • A woman sits in the doorway of her home
  • A newspaper stand in Dharavi
  • A butcher's shop in Dharavi
  • One of the 11 mosques in Dharavi
  • A young girl plays by an oven
  • Children attend an English class in Dharavi
  • Children play cricket on wasteland
  • A family in their home
  • Boys with goats in Dharavi
  • child looks after her baby sister
  • The tiffin shop prepares dinners for workers
  • Children outside their home in Dharavi
  • A woman works in her home
  • A woman washes clothes outside her home in the Kumbharwada pottery area of Dharavi
  • A woman carries concrete in the Kumbharwada pottery area of Dharavi
  • A street in Dharavi
  • A family prepares flowers for the temple while watching TV in their home
  • A family works in their home
  • Men make clothes
  • A street scene in Dharavi
  • A lucky symbol on a door of a home in Dharavi
  • A woman in the Kumbharwada pottery area of Dharavi
  • A young girl in her home in Dharavi
  • Prakesh, with his two wives and 12 children, share lunch together in the family home in Dharavi
  • Children sit outside their home in Dharavi
  • Street scene in Dharavi
  • A boy plays outside his home
  • A toothbrush hangs in the doorway of a home in Dharavi
  • A woman in the doorway of her home in Dharavi
  • Street food for sale
  • A roadside Fish stall
  • An evening street scene in Dharavi
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