high-rise construction, india, 1997
workers perch on the scaffolding of a high-rise development in india. massive population growth since independence in 1947 has provoked a boom in infrastructure. india now holds 950 million people, one-sixth of the world’s total. an increasing number are middle-class residents of such “concrete colonies.”
text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “india: fifty years of independence,” may 1997, national geographic magazine
高耸的建筑，印度，1997
高处脚手架上的工人们缔造了印度的高速发展。自从1947年独立以来，印度人口的快速增长使得基础设施业欣欣向荣。印度现在拥有9亿5千万人口，占世界总人口数的六分之一。他们中有越来越多的中产阶级居住在这样的“集中居住区”里。