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My friend Mahr on Flickr sent me this link to an excellent photo essay of life in La Chureca - the massive garbage dump and shanty town in Managua.
The photos are sad, haunting, and strikingly familiar. Scenes like this can be found in La Esperanza in Bluefields where families scavenge for a living amoung the refuse.
Please check out Jan Sochor’s photo essay “Life of a Scavenger”.
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September 5th, 2008 at 10:01 am
[...] would not be the first artist to venture into the infamous garbage dump La Chureca in Managua. Like artists before her she strives to find meaning, understanding, and perhaps even beauty amoung the human suffering and [...]
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
It’s a fine line to walk doing a project like this and it was done so tastefully. Jan is an amazing artist it seems.