THIS excellent exhibition by Chilean photojournalist Carlos Reyes-Manzo focuses on images from across the world which display the lives of people in struggle.

Reyes-Manzo explores the human condition in relation to dwellings — places and spaces where people try to find shelter, protection, comfort and a sense of belonging.

Some of the images show no more than shacks, others formerly substantial buildings needlessly destroyed, such as a house bombed by the Israeli army.

The exhibition is also a chronicle of a journalistic journey, which takes in the Nicaraguan revolution of 1979, Ethiopia in the 1980s and Iraq and Afghanistan in the early part of this century. 

There are contrasting images of England, including scenes from the streets of Brighton and London streets.

Reyes-Manzo, expelled from Chile to Panama after being held in a Santiago concentration camp by the murderous Pinochet regime in the 1970s, eventually arrived in Britain. 

Living in some of the worst dwellings in this country at the time, he realised that what was happening in Britain “was happening all around the world.”

Thus the images convey a sense that things do not seem to be getting any better globally as the decades pass. Yet the resilience of people to survive and prosper remains.

That’s nowhere more evident than in the image of a dalit woman in India, an “untouchable” who is still able to stand with dignity.

It’s a photograph which sums up the power of the work on display.

Runs until March 20, at the Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square London, WC1. Free.