MODERN SLAVES OF DUBAI

Higher, greater, more luxurious. If it was after Sheik Muhammad bin Rashid al Maktoum - and it is - Dubai will become the world metropolis of architectural wonders and records. This is only possible to achieve with the sweat of a gigantic labour army from abroad.
Hundredthousands of these foreign workers labour on the construction- sites for very low vages, live pent-up in tiny barracks and seperate from their families for many years.
This is a photographic documentary about the everyday-life of the men with the unity-coloured overalls. The men outside the lap of luxury, who exist in the shadows of the skyscrapers.

Playboy Magazine / 2008

with Christoph Wöhrle