1% Privilege in a Time of Global Inequality is a new photography exhibition curated by Myles Little, photo editor at Time. It examines wealth around the world through the eyes of 30 of the most distinguished contemporary documentary photographers.
Christopher Anderson / Magnum Photos
A street preacher in New York appeals on Wall Street to repent, 2011.
Michael Light / Radius Books
Roma Hills, a development of 3,000–8,000-square-foot homes in Henderson, Nevada, 2012. This human-altered landscape speaks about the environmental costs of consumption. It takes a lot of water and energy to create such an oasis in the desert.
Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimbert / INSTITUTE
A man floats in the 57th-floor swimming pool at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel with the skyline of the Singapore financial district behind him, 2013. Singapore is one of the biggest tax havens in the world.
Greg Girard
The Fuxing Lu demolition captured next to high-rise construction in Shanghai, China, 2002.
Zed Nelson
James, 25, a British driving instructor, receives rhinoplasty surgery to reduce the size of his nose for cosmetic reasons, 2011. When talking about wealth inequality it's important to talk about healthcare inequality as well.
Daniel Shea
This image shows the environmental costs of consumption as a tall row of trees hides a coal plant from a beautiful house in Cheshire, Ohio, 2009.
Anna Skladmann
Varvara in her home cinema in Moscow, 2010. Russia has one of the highest levels of wealth inequality in the world. In fact, 110 people hold 35% of all wealth, a 2013 report said.
Jesse Chehak
The Hollywood sign, a symbol of tremendous cultural and financial might, sits on a scrubby Los Angeles hillside, 2007.
David Chancellor
A security guard at the North Mara diamond mine in Tanzania stands between impoverished locals and wealth.
Nina Berman / NOOR
Some of the 25,000 members of Pastor Eddie Longas New Birth Baptist Church in Atlanta, USA, 2010. Longas, who has received millions from the church in salary, preaches that homosexuality is a sin and that Jesus wants his believers to be rich.
David Leventi
The Opera de Monte-Carlo in Monte Carlo, Monaco, a paradise for the rich and a symbol of leisure and recreation, 2009.
