Images shot during a few days on a boat trip through the Rio Negro, at the extreme northwest of Brazilian Amazonas state, from Manaus city to Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira town.

Brazil/ Venezuela - Travel / Adventure

The Kibera Slums, an area 5 Kilometers Southwest of the city centre of Nairobi, is the most populated informal settlement in East Africa, housing more than one quarter of Nairobi's population. The name 'Kibera' is a Nubian word for 'forest'. Kibera is roughly 2 Kilometres squared with an estimated population of 1 million people. There are no residential buildings over a single storey. The average home size in Kibera is 3 meters by 3 meters, with an average of five persons per dwelling. Urban services such as water or sanitation are minimal. There is an average of one pit latrine for every 50 to 500 people.

Brazilian BR-163 Highway, which is slated to be paved as an exportation corridor for soybeans via the Amazon River, traverses an area that is largely outside of Brazilian government control. A climate of generalized lawlessness and impunity prevails, and matters related to environment and to land tenure are especially unregulated. These images were taken in Mato Grosso and Pará states, along the BR-163, between Cuiabá and Santarém cities.