Agbogbloshie, Ghana, is Africa’s largest rubbish dump. Here the impoverished inhabitants of this “city in the city” take the refuse that they collect at the port and the various habitations so as that they can dispose it and, by burning out in the open, they can then collect the metal parts which can then be sold base on weight to be recycled.
(Agbogbloshie) “In 2009 – Sampson explained – a national report revealed that 250 thousand tonnes of electronic and i-tech material had arrived into the country from abroad. Of this, around 170 thousand tonnes were second hand objects, with the rest...
It is like there is a Jinn, a desert spirit, a ghost, so old that, at sunset, while warmly wrapped up in a white jellabiya and holding on tightly to a walking stick, advancing with effortless elegance through the dust...
They are called “stalkers” and they are the inhabitants of the dead city. April 26th 1986: reactor number 4 of the Lenin nuclear power plant exploded in Chernobyl. The radioactive nightmare overwhelmed Europe and made the world tremor. A 2,600-squared-kilometer...
From Doel (Belgium) Why is Aachen, located in the west of Germany, distributing iodine pills to the whole region free of charge? Since September the authorities of the German city have started a two-months-long prevention program in order to contain...
From Verdun (France) “It happens everyday”. Michel Thouvenin crosses his arms and looks to the barley field on his left. “When I pass with the tractor, the plowshare continuously unearths bombs from World War I: grenades, chemical bombs, small and...
Once there was life, today the social dessert in abandoned: this is Doel, a small town not far from Anversa, symbol of a Belgium contaminated from where pollution from the ghosts of a nuclear past risk the disappearance of an...
When Evgeny moved to the village of Starobachaty, next to his home there was a potato field. Nowit has been replaced with a mountains of rubbish, traversed by trucks that kick up a yellow dust along their path. “When the...
“I invite you to stop going up and down the valley taking photographs and interviewing people. Be very careful, we could ask for your arrest.” This is how the phone call between myself and Mr Jorge Esteva, head of communications...
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