Living on the Edge
Giovanni Porzio
Giovanni Porzio took these photos while travelling in the countries described in his latest book "Un dollaro al giorno" (Edizioni Tropea, 2012), a passionate account that stretches across three continents and focuses on the plight of the forgotten millions who struggle to survive on the edge of the poverty line, sidelined and often crushed by the harsh imbalances of the global economy.
The saints are comin’
Dancing may help
Memorial
Drug addict in rehabititation
Hazara boy at Bamyan’s Buddha caves
Mother and daughter begging in the Kabul bazaar
Icrc hospital in Kabul
Afghanistan's #1 export good
Afghanistan, Herat prison
The rough national game
Operation at the Emergency hospital in Kabul
Sheep and goats herded along the road
Digging for emeralds in the Chubak mountains
Emerald mines, galleries cut deep inside the mountain
Young boys working at the Emerald mines
Ethiopia’s “green hunger”
Rain: too little and too late
Race against time
The face of hunger
MSF nurse measuring the height of a malnourished child
Doctor checks the condition of a child
Nothing to eat
Roasting grain
When famine strikes
MSF feeding center, Oromiya
Home
Imam leads the prayer
Refugees in the Gaza Strip
Among the dead
Doing homework in Gaza
Home sweet home
The dead body of Khalil
Down in the tunnels, Rafah
Gaza City hospital
Shati refugee camp
Streets of Gaza
The border at Rafah
Another lost child
Street kids in Ciudad de Guatemala
Civil war
Drug use
Having a rest in the street
Doña Laura in her shack
Checkpoint in Ciudad de Guatemala
Every scrap is worth something
The plastic warehouse
The garbage relleno in Ciudad de Guatemala
A baby in his suspended cradle
Digging deeper
Women on sale in India
Making bricks
The hardest job
Child labour in India
Hospital pharmacy in Forbesganj, Bihar
The brothel owner
Piece rate
Harvest in Bihar
Born into poverty
Face down
Ciudad Juárez detention center
Brain damage
Seclusion
The Rio Grande border at Ciudad Juárez
Jesús, the barman at Club 15
The Santa Muerte chapel
Fosa comun
The children's section at the San Rafael graveyard
Burial grounds
Murder scene
Feeding line at the Sindh MSF field hospital
A malnourished child with his mother
Surviving with nothing
IDP camp in Johi
Water distribution
Everything is lost
Going home
Lake Manchar
E-waste
E-waste
E-waste
Last port of call
Cutting in
The answer is the Koran
Fisherman’s house
Dying in his bed
A widespread habit
Stealing to survive
Makpandu refugee camp
On patrol with the Arrow Boys
The Arrow Boys
Shelter in the church
Giovanna Calabria, mother superior at the Catholic mission
Nzara hospital, South Sudan
Kala Azar epidemic
Friday prayer at Malakal main mosque
Raising the cross
Sunday Mass at Malakal transit camp
War dance or peace dance?
Dinka women celebrate “the long walk to freedom”
Food distribution
Critically ill girl
Ambisome
Wounded soldier in the intensive care unit
Infected
Giovanni Porzio
Giovanni Porzio (www.giovanniporzio.it - @giovanniporzio) is a journalist, author and photographer. As special correspondent for the Italian weekly Panorama, he has covered a wide variety of international conflicts and travelled to over 120 countries. He has received several awards, including the “Max David Prize” for his reports on the Afghan war. He is the author of “Guida al Medio Oriente”, “Cory”, “Top secret”, “Inferno Somalia”, “Cuore nero”, “La guerra del Golfo”, “Cronache dalle terre di nessuno” and “Un dollaro al giorno”.