First International Photography Competition “Cities without Architecture” has already started receiving entries from all over the world! We are happy to announce that Fernando will be a member of the jury, together with the photographer Alexandra Kononchenko, architect Changfang Luo and Ben Murphy. Below we copy a brief description of the competition and the idea behind it.

According to the Un-Habitat (United Nations) Urban Observatory, it is estimated that fifty million people will move from rural areas to the cities in western Africa over the next ten years. In Mumbay, the population has recorded a four-fold increase. Half of the population live in slums, 700.000 spend the night on the streets, 100 million people in the world, mostly kids, have no permanent home.

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