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Caroline Knowles
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Mar 3

‘A better life awaits you’

‘A better life awaits you’ Plastic recycling in Dharavi, Mumbai Caroline Knowles A better life is the promise of a real estate billboard towering over the informal settlement — some call a slum — of Dharavi in Mumbai. This isn’t any old slum: it is Asia’s biggest, which shot to…

Mumbai

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‘A better life awaits you’
‘A better life awaits you’
Mumbai

5 min read


Mar 3

The Tyres, the Road, and the Vulcanizers who Keep Lagos Moving

Caroline Knowles This photo sets the scene. It is taken in Shomolu, a low-income neighbourhood in Lagos, notorious for its violence, its bands of workless youths, and for spontaneous protests at the egregious behaviour of the political class and the runaway inflation that eats up people’s attempts to survive. Resilience…

Lagos

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The Tyres, the Road, and the Vulcanizers who Keep Lagos Moving
The Tyres, the Road, and the Vulcanizers who Keep Lagos Moving
Lagos

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Mar 2

God’s Lagos

Caroline Knowles & David Garbin The entrance to the Mountains of Fire and Miracles (MFM) revivalist church HQ in the Onike neighbourhood of Lagos is behind high spiked walls and gates guarded by CCTV cameras. Inside, its vast auditorium is divided into sections so that congregants can seek redress for…

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God’s Lagos
God’s Lagos

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Mar 2

Hanoi on the Move

Caroline Knowles Composing the intricate choreographies of Hanoi traffic, millions of motorcycles — the people’s transport — sometimes carrying entire families, weave in and out of cars, taxis, trucks, minibuses, and pedestrians, in a dazzling kaleidoscope of motion. In this city-on-the-move, pavements are repurposed as parking lots, or as places…

Traffic Congestion

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Hanoi on the Move
Hanoi on the Move
Traffic Congestion

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Dec 12, 2022

What’s in a Metre? Water and Power in Mumbai

What’s in a Metre? Water and Power in Mumbai Caroline Knowles Rahul looks up from fixing a motorbike outside the cluster of a 7 story building in Sangharsh Nagar, Mumbai. The bike isn’t his — he is a mechanic in his mid-twenties who lives in a one-roomed apartment with a…

Mumbai

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What’s in a Metre? Water and Power in Mumbai
What’s in a Metre? Water and Power in Mumbai
Mumbai

5 min read


Dec 12, 2022

Churches, Gangs, Water and Sanitation in Lusaka and Cape Town

Churches, Gangs, Water and Sanitation in Lusaka and Cape Town Caroline Knowles On the edge of the business centre in Kuils River with its post-Apartheid government housing, now the delipidated territories of the “Sexy Boys” and other ‘gangs’ that express the desperation of youth with bullets; people in the Wesbank…

Water

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Churches, Gangs, Water and Sanitation in Lusaka and Cape Town
Churches, Gangs, Water and Sanitation in Lusaka and Cape Town
Water

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Oct 4, 2022

Water Management on the Periphery of Medellin, Colombia

Water Management on the Periphery of Medellin, Colombia Caroline Knowles Marita stomps into the meeting at the community centre in Bello Oriente in pattered wellies. She is flushed from the climb and from arguing with city authorities over the closure of the school. The school needs repairs. The landowner won’t…

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Water Management on the Periphery of Medellin, Colombia
Water Management on the Periphery of Medellin, Colombia

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Oct 4, 2022

Jumping for Health in Nairobi

Jumping for Health in Nairobi Caroline Knowles Vanita and her classmates stream out of the school gates at the end of the day. Brightly coloured uniforms stream through the Kasarani Mwiki neighbourhood in Nairobi, moving in all directions through this north-eastern residential neighbourhood. Today is different. Vanita is clutching her…

Child Health

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Jumping for Health in Nairobi
Jumping for Health in Nairobi
Child Health

6 min read


Oct 4, 2022

Navigating Nairobi

Navigating Nairobi Caroline Knowles Looking out on Mathare; an informal, low-income settlement in Nairobi, home to between 200,000 and 500,000 people the city authorities have been unable to count, I see a dense tangle of shelters, rigged together from wood and rusting corrugated iron stretching into the distance. Women are…

Nairobi

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Navigating Nairobi
Navigating Nairobi
Nairobi

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May 3, 2022

School hedges: experiments in improving air quality in Buenos Aires

School hedges: experiments in improving air quality in Buenos Aires Caroline Knowles As city populations and traffic grow, air quality suffers. Globally 4.2 million people died prematurely in 2016 as a result of illnesses related to poor ambient air quality[i]. The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that over 90% of…

Buenos Aires

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School hedges: experiments in improving air quality in Buenos Aires
School hedges: experiments in improving air quality in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

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