Photo Exhibition: Poverty and Wealth Gap on Display at Athens Airport

Athens International Airport and the Athens Photo Festival invite visitors and passengers to have a stimulating photographic “dialogue”

Athens International Airport, in cooperation with the Athens Photo Festival, is hosting a photo exhibition entitled “1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality” that approaches the issue of the exploding gap between poverty and wealth in the world.

Through documentary shots by renowned photographers, the exhibition displays the growing inequality between contradictory life conditions, leading to the “1%” phenomenon: the richest one percent of the world’s population owns almost half of total assets.

Maids prepare a room for a guest in a wealthy Kenyan household. 2011 Guillaume Bonn

A man floats in the 57th-floor swimming pool of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, with the skyline of the Singapore financial district behind him. 2013 Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti—INSTITUTE

The exhibition “1%: Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality”, is open daily on a 24-hour basis, at the exhibition area “Art and Culture”, at the Arrivals Level of the Airport (all users area).

The exhibition runs until October 15.