Life in a box: inside Hong Kong's tiny apartments

We already wrote about the inhuman conditions of living in Hong Kong apartments-coffins, more like a cell where the unthinkable for this area fee crammed people. At this time, the photographer benny Lam (by Lam) took a series of photos from a different angle. He presented life in the "coffins" through the eyes of residents.

Miniature wooden boxes with a total area of 1.5 square meter is called the "stall-coffins". In fact it is a bed, covered with wooden boards.

The inhabitants of these wooden "coffins" — the inhabitants of different age and sex, and this is the only housing that they can afford.

Apartment with an area of approximately 36 square meters divided into 20 wooden "coffins".

Hong Kong's population of almost 7.5 million people has become the most expensive housing market on the planet. In megapulse almost no land left for further development, and therefore there was a terrible side effect called "compartments-coffins".

These tiny premises with an area of about 1.5 square meters, the UN called "an affront to human dignity" and National Geographic photographer benny Lam showed in his impressive series of photographs entitled "Trapped" ("Trapped").

Describing the living conditions in these "flats" are usually lost in the neon lights of Hong Kong, a photographer said: