‘One day I realised I had grown up in a place that had been ghettoised,’ says photographer Mahtab Hussain, whose series Muslim Ghettos shows the areas of Birmingham shaped by immigration.His photographs document the poverty in communities like Small Heath, Sparkhill, Sparkbrook and Alum Rock, where the first migrants settled in the postwar era, and areas that have recently become home to refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Syria. ‘My pictures show that Britain isn’t immune from poverty, that there are people who have been seriously neglected by society and whose only real salvation is religion.’

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Source: The Guardian