Life in the slums, Kolkata

• Photographer
  Cecilia Colussi, United Kingdom

Walking in Northern Kolkata, India, I discovered the slum along the
rails. Despite the hard conditions of life, the lack of hygiene and
the extreme poverty they have to face, I encountered men, women
and children ready to welcome me with the warmest of the smiles.
I never met anybody with the same grace and dignity as these
people: belonging to the slum community, for them, means being
part of a family able to sustain them and to assure the strength
necessary to face every day’s challenges.