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Divis Flats, Belfast

Date 1986
Dimensions Image: 12 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (31.8 x 47.6 cm)
Paper: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Print medium Photo-Gelatin silver

Called "the worst housing project in Western Europe", Divis is a rubble-strewn rat-infested set of 1960's high-rises designed for the working class, a "vertical ghetto", as a resident called it, where deprivation bred alienation and children's sport involves high-speed joyrides past Army forts fired on by the high-velocity bullets, which have injured or killed many. Gilles Peress

Copyright

© Gilles Peress
For reproduction please contact Magnum Photos

Credit line

Gift of the Photographer to the W. Eugene Smith Legacy Collection

Feedback Accession No. 530.1994