INDIA. Mumbai. 2006. The Shilpiri family household. This family consists of an elder couple, one daughter and her family, and one daughter-in-law with her family, as well as the children of another daughter. In the two tiny rooms they have (perhaps 200 sq feet floor space in total) they are 15 people.

Dharavi is one of Mumbai's biggest and longest standing slums. Home to somewhere between 600 000 and one million people, it is a beehive of recycling and manufacturing industries. However, Dharavi sits on prime real estate right in the heart of the booming megapolis, and is in close vicinity to the new Bandra-Kurla Complex, a new financial hub. Dharavi is now scheduled for redevelopment, meaning everything in the slum, for good and bad, is set to be demolished.