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Under the Flyway
Delhi, India
Those living under the flyway in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp located in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar have migrated from states all over India in search of a better life for them and their children. Having established their homes without any official documentation, the livelihoods they have built over the years are now at risk.
In 2015, construction of a new flyway began – right on top of a number of homes and fields. Despite the establishment in this area prior to the construction, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has begun to remove homes without any way for those living there to contest it.
While the construction currently continues to push into the homesteads, those who live there have no choice but to continue on with their day to day tasks with the threat of relocation ever looming.
Sampal, a farmer who has lived in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp for 24 years, says of the community “As long as we can live here, we’ll be here”. The continued goal for a better life in Delhi hangs in the balance of the continuation of the flyover construction.
CPOY Award Of Excellence Winner
A group of young students play a game of Kabaddi after school at the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, April 1, 2024. The school, Panchsheel Shikshan Sansthan, is a semi-permanent structure that is the only option for education for most of the children living there. 
A pair of construction worker’s purchase tea and snacks from a market booth in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, March 18, 2024. The stall was only built after construction started, specifically meant to service the workers who came each day to work on the flyway. 
Baburam, Pushpa and their son Amnesh tend to their rented field in the late afternoon in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, April 1, 2024. Farmers living in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp often work from 5 AM to 10 PM, every day of the week. 
Kajal, a mother living in the Y.K. Jhuggi camp, cooks a meal while watching over her son Deepak in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, March 18, 2024. Men, women and children must all contribute to the farming, cooking and upkeep of their temporary homesteads to make ends meet. 
Gautum, a student at the Panchsheel Shikshan Sansthan school, works on cleaning dishes after tea in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Tuesday, February 23, 2024. Gautum attends a school outside of the camp, but faces losing his education should his family have to relocate. 
A pair of men wash vegetables bought at that mornings market in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, March 18, 2024. The unfinished flyway has become a gathering place for the markets that rotate through the Y.K. Jhuggi camp, giving cover to trade and sell under. 
Children play and enjoy ice cream donated through a sponsor of the school in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, April 1, 2024. Most kids living in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp have to balance helping with their family’s farms alongside attending school. 
Pooja, a resident of the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp, washes her dishes at a water pump in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, March 18, 2024. Water – especially drinking water – is a precious commodity for this community, often needing to be supplied by the government. 
Kids living in the Y.K. Jhuggi Camp take time after school to play on a traveling trampoline in Delhi’s Yamuna Khadar on Monday, April 1, 2024. Nanatin, the owner, moves the trampoline around slum areas where children can play for five to ten rupees an hour.
Holy Rider
Columbia, MO
The unexpected juxtapositions of Ken ‘Big Dill’ Rice’s life blend together in all
that he does. Rice is a Christian, a member of the Black Sheep motorcycle club, a
Desert Storm Veteran – as well as COO of Pickleman’s. He wakes up at five in the
morning to do his devotionals, followed by a game or two of pickleball, then off to work
at his home office surrounded by collectibles and ending his day by fitting in a ride to the
Harley Davidson at night whenever there’s events.
When stereotypes associated with many of these groups come to mind, these
overlaps can be a bit unexpected – especially being an active Harley Davidson HOG
member. Rice is keenly aware of his different hobbies and lifestyles, but keeps his
religion first and foremost, his passions and work linking together through his faith. “I
see God everywhere, in my business practice, in riding…” Rice said.
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