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Photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in and photographing the slums of Nairobi, Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta. Bendiksen’s photos of family homes portray a reality that clashes with popular perception. “I wanted to show who lives in these slums,” he says. “People think of them as mainly criminals and prostitutes. But the people who live here are basically mommies and daddies, going about their normal daily lives, with a lot of challenges.” [%comments]