Found this link today, connecting THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP photo project to two other photographers work in garbage dumps in different parts of the world (Ghana and Kenya). I like the work of the other photogs better than my own, need to improve my own efforts.
People, families, children worldwide are so desperate they dig in garbage to survive. There is something fundamentally wrong with a world that allows that to happen. We have money to take our dogs to get shampoos and haircuts, we have money to buy guns and a 3rd car, we can afford exotic vacations to far off places but children still need to dig in garbage for food? How can that be?
Update* from Facebook...
Found this today, people world wide digging in garbage to survive. Wonder what there lives are like now in this Corona world. I worry for the families in the dump, as they are Burmese living in Thailand. People of foreign origin sometimes get blamed-attacked during a crisis. Fear does strange things especially when the the most powerful man in the world is using terms like CHINESE virus. On the link there are stories about dumps and the people who work them in Kenya and Ghana.
https://threader.app/thread/1150022024003276802
https://asiaphotoreview.com/interview-families-of-the-dump-forgotten-laughter-gerry-yaum/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2014/feb/27/agbogbloshie-worlds-largest-e-waste-dump-in-pictures
https://www.thenational.ae/world/africa/kenya-s-biggest-landfill-poses-climate-change-question-in-pictures-1.800674
People, families, children worldwide are so desperate they dig in garbage to survive. There is something fundamentally wrong with a world that allows that to happen. We have money to take our dogs to get shampoos and haircuts, we have money to buy guns and a 3rd car, we can afford exotic vacations to far off places but children still need to dig in garbage for food? How can that be?
Update* from Facebook...
Found this today, people world wide digging in garbage to survive. Wonder what there lives are like now in this Corona world. I worry for the families in the dump, as they are Burmese living in Thailand. People of foreign origin sometimes get blamed-attacked during a crisis. Fear does strange things especially when the the most powerful man in the world is using terms like CHINESE virus. On the link there are stories about dumps and the people who work them in Kenya and Ghana.
https://threader.app/thread/1150022024003276802
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