The ending of the Kosovo conflict in 1999 marked the end of the Balkan Wars. As NATO forces went into Kosovo, the Serbian military and Police fled north into Serbia, leaving the Serbian population unprotected from the returning Albanian population. The Albanians sought revenge from the atrocities committed by the Serbs, and during the next decade, several riots and attacks threatened the Serbs in Kosovo, forcing more than 200.000 Serbians to flee. Today, more than 10.000 Serbs are internally displaced in Kosovo, living in small enclaves in the Albanian dominated areas or in the Serbian dominated north. Many Serbs feel that the heart of Serbia is Kosovo, and they have never recognized Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence made on February 17th, 2008. The situation is still unresolved, since Serbia is under pressure from the European Union to accept Kosovo's independence.

“And perhaps in abodes of poverty, where health, learning, shelter and security are not birthrights, the soul is not a birthright either.” (William T. Vollmann, The Atlas) No one knows exactly how many people live in Mumbai, India. In 2007 the United Nation's estimated that 19 million people lives there. This is more people than the populations of small countries like Denmark, Norway and Sweden put together - stuck in a city slightly larger than 5 x Manhattan Island. This makes Mumbai to the most densely populated city in the world. Every day up to 300 families arrives in the city in pursuit of a better life. A life where shelter, clean drinking water and access to toilets is not a right but a privilege. More than half the city's residents lives in slum or on the streets. Mumbai, known as Maximum City and The City of Dreams, is where the extremes meet. The worlds largest slum population lives next door to some of the worlds richest people.

Mitrovica, best known from the ethnic clashes between Serbs and Kosovo-Albanians during and after the Kosovo War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War) in 1998-1999. Kosovo-Albanians, Serbs and the Roma population have all been persecuted. Today, a large part of the Roma population still lives in IDP (internally displaced people) camps in northern Mitrovica, in areas of high lead pollution from the Trepca Industries. Camps, that UN KFOR forces moved out of due to the pollution. Two camps remains, Cesmin Lug and Osterode, the former french KFOR camp. The Roma people still living here are suffering from poor slum housing, lack of water and toilets and the lead dust from the nearby mine tailings. In Tito's Yugoslavia, the city was defined by a single, large company, The Trepca Industries, who run the mine and the factories for decades. In the 1970‘s more than 24.000 workers was employed in one of Yugoslavia's proudest companies. The Trepca legacy is today more than 33 million tonnes of mine tailings scattered around Mitrovica, defunct factories and wastelands, and an unemployment rate of 70 percent. In 2000, UN forces closed down the lead melting plant in northern Mitrovica, the areas most polluting factory. Today the air quality is slowly getting better, but the mine tailings stored under the open sky is still a health hazard. In Mitrovica, the children has four times as high lead concentrations in their blood as children from other nearby cities. Playing in Mitrovica is playing with a dirty touch.

Panelák (Czech: [ˈpanɛlaːk]) is a colloquial term in Czech and Slovak for a panel building constructed of pre-fabricated, pre-stressed concrete, such as those extant in the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc. According to census statistics, around one in three Czechs still live in a panelák. Similar buildings were built in all communist countries, from Poland (blok mieszkalny, wielka płyta) to Mongolia. There were also attempts to introduce similar structures as public housing in the United States (see Pruitt–Igoe and Cabrini–Green), but almost all ended in failure – some in disaster.

A visual journey through the streets of Istanbul, meeting people, seeing places, drinking tea and playing checkers.

As a child, Steffen was severely injured in a car accident, leaving him quadriplegic. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, he relies on the helpers for everything.

As a child, Steffen was severely injured in a car accident, leaving him quadriplegic. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, he relies on the helpers for everything. QUADRIPLEGIA : paralysis of all four limbs—also called tetraplegia.