Life Inside Hong Kong's 'Coffin Cubicles', A Parallel Universe Of Misery And Hardship

¡°That day, I came home and cried,¡± said Benny Lam, the photographer who captured the grim living conditions of people living in Hong Kong¡¯s ¡®Coffin Cubicles¡¯.

Just recently, travellers began appreciating the cubicles hostel as an option to stay - they're cheap, pocket-friendly and hep. But life inside these 15 - 120-square-foot apartments isn't as easy as it seems.

From cooking to sleeping, from watching tv to taking a dump - everything happens in these cubicles that look like death traps for those who're claustrophobic.

Benny names his series 'Trapped' and aims to illuminate the suffocating life of people juxtaposed outside Hong Kong's neon life. He calls this as "an insult to human dignity".

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"You may wonder why we should care, as these people are not a part of our lives," Lam wrote on his Facebook page. "They are exactly the people who come into your life every single day: they are serving you as the waiters in the restaurants where you eat, they are the security guards in the shopping malls you wander around, or the cleaners and the delivery men on the streets you pass through. The only difference between us and them is [their homes]. This is a question of human dignity." he added.

After seeing these photographs, a lot of people have expressed their outrage and wrath about the poor living conditions, but let's take a step back and assess the problem closely.

With a population of nearly 7.5 million, what option do they really have?