There are small signs of life within the pictures: lines of laundry, slippers left on a doorstep, some potted plants. But the photographs remain largely unpopulated, which gives them an apocalyptic aspect.  Many houses seem as if they are no longer being inhabited. In addition there’s a striking placelessness and timelessness about the landscape. Although all the photographs were taken in Baseco in February, 2008, they might have been taken in Kowloon City, in Dharavi, or in Makoko, just yesterday or forty years ago. Perhaps that’s the saddest aspect of Bialobrzeski’s project. The inadequate living conditions it documents have existed, and continue to exist, in so many parts of the world.