Life Under Construction

A homeless sleeps on a bench in front of the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina on Via della Conciliazione in Rome, Italy. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images.

Clear view screen

Abseiling window cleaners tackle a skyscraper in 北京 (Běijīng), China. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.

Spot the Difference

Colour rectangles decorate the façade of an apartment complex in 香港 (Hong Kong), China. Photo: @宋世嘉KSong.

Things with Wings

Items belonging to homeless people are gathered on the sidewalk as the LA Sanitation service sweeps the street in Hollywood, California, United States. Photo: Valérie Macon/AFP/Getty Images.

Spoon class theory

A young man drinks water as he sits in his cubicle, called a goshiwon (고시원), where he lives in Suwon (수원), South Korea. The sparsely furnished rooms were previously mostly used by less well-off students to temporarily cut themselves off from the outside world while they studied for civil service job tests. Now they are increasingly becoming permanent homes to young people who identify as the “dirt spoons”, those born to low-income families who have all but given up on social mobility. Photo: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters.