KLONG TOEY
Sandwiched between an elevated motorway and Bangkok docks is an area known as Klong Toey. Tourists peering out of rattling tuk tuks' and taxis speed past hardly noticing, but this mosquito-infested shanty town is home to seventy thousand non-people.

For forty years they have built their homes and lives on these few acres of "unofficial land" unable to register either births or deaths and refused all benefits and basic services. Despite the ravages of poverty and disease, the people of Klong Toey show a determination to improve their lives and not simply survive. The result is a functioning community which has stuggled to provide its own schooling, rudimentary health care, a youth centre and co-operatives built with low interest loans. For the past six years I have made several visits to Klong Toey in an attempt to document their daily lives.