# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BJ6CzuuBjyO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16455137-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2016-09-03T20:19:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

Adam, 25, from Zambia in a windowless room he shares with four other migrant workers in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 22, 2015. By gettyreportage photographer Jonathan torgovnik.
This image, from Jonathan's project about migrants in Johannesburg's abandoned downtown buildings, was presented at this week's 28th Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival. 
Many projects at the festival highlighted European immigration, but Jonathan's project showed the other side of the equation. "At a time when the world’s attention is directed towards the thousands of African migrants trying to make their way north to reach the shores of Europe," says Jonathan, "little attention is given to the fact that thousands of African migrants are looking south, and arriving in Johannesburg, one of Africa’s most affluent cities."
Jonathan’s project shows the harsh living conditions of African migrants in Johannesburg’s inner city, where many live in so-called ‘hijacked’ buildings, abandoned by white owners in the post-apartheid era and now run by unauthorized slumlords. Recent years have seen a rise in xenophobic attacks on migrants to South Africa, a particular threat to residents of these buildings, who come from Malawi, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia and beyond. #visapourlimage #visapourlimage2016

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