PORTAFOLIO
Los Pepenadores de Oaxaca
Working in the City Dump
Janjaap Dekker
A burning sun,
smoke from smoldering and
flaming garbage, dust kicked up by wind and
trucks, the smell of rotting vegetables.
Literally scratching out food and a living from
the refuse of the city, some sixty people every day
face a brutal workplace full of disease.
Young, restless
children and bent old couples pull apart and
sift and sort, collecting metals and glass, cleaning plastics for
bundling, hunting for toys and treasures, judging the edibility of
food and delighting in a box of discarded lollipops.
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