
If you’ve ever been to Dhaka, you might know that capturing its colorful pulsing energy is difficult. There’s just too much going on. But this image by Noah Addis seems to get it. I keep coming back to it.
This image is part of his impressive Future Cities project where he documents “slums and informal settlements” where “one out of every seven people on the planet” live. He notes that they “may outwardly appear to be ruled by chaos and disorder, but they are in fact very organized places that grow almost organically to suit the needs of the people who live in them.” Addis is a photojournalist and artist who has long been focused on urbanization and climate change.