Work in Progress
Seven billion souls inhabit this planet. That estimate is according the United Nation's Department of Economic and Social Affairs, which also says that about half of those people are city-dwellers. About 35 years from now, two-thirds of the world's population will reside in cities. With this in mind, Martin Roemers is photographing the world's megacities: places with populations in excess of ten million. How can people live in such immense, crowded places? For all their chaos, big cities still have a sense of humanity. That's what he wants to reveal with these photographs: both the dynamic character of the city, and the individual humans, the urban travelers, who call the metropolis home.
Metropolis won a first prize in World Press Photo 2011.

The New Yorker: "A crush of citizens who appear as ghostly bits of fabric swirling around sidewalk venders' displays like unharnessed energy."

Photo: Dhaka, Bangladesh. Population 15,4 million