“Trash of the City”

Knowledge workers, you can call these people, the ones that collect waste from the street for a living

Plastic protector

Bishkek -  People use a plastic bottle to stop water getting into the lock. It’s a cheap and convenient solution.…
Anastasia Slastnikova – Bishkek Lab

plastic bag

Ramallah -  old plastic bag fly with the wind on the form a duck .... plane trying to climb to the top through the wind to be in another place, and to see…
Awatef Romeya – Ramallah Lab

Open Dumps

Sao Paulo -  Several garbage bags lying on the street - waiting for collection. With rain, garbage falling outside the bags loads into the “boeiros” - favoring floods. Meanwhile, the plastic trash can…
Sylvia Sanchez – Sao Paulo Lab

New urban slaverism.

Sao Paulo -  This catadore cannot become part of the collective. He is sorting out his garbage in the street. He cannot leave his car behind afraid as he is it will be…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

lunch break

Rotterdam -  An improvised chair, a table and an empty juice carton, leftovers from a lunch break? The politics of demolish/rebuild leads to perpetual construction sites.…
Maurice Bogaert – Rotterdam Lab

Lets go shopping

Rotterdam -  A submerged shopping cart in the middle of a shopping centre. What does that tell you? I once heard that a shopping cart costs around 600 euros. I don’t know…
Martijn Nieuwenhuis – Rotterdam Lab

Inside

Detroit -  Inside of a burned down house on Michigan Ave. in Detroit. Michigan Ave. used to be one of the most commercially viable parts of the city due to a large…
Marcin Szczepanski – Migrationpapa

Globalisation under occupation

Qalandia -  Coca-Cola company opened its branch in Palestine almost before the ink of 1993 Oslo Agreement dried. The globalization trend won’t stop with Coca-Cola but brand names have been visiting a…
Khaldun Bshara – 50 Villages Qalandia

One of the lifes in Bishkek

Bishkek -  A beggar that gains money for the life from collecting glass bottles on the street and bringing them to the place that collect bottles.…
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva – Bishkek Lab

Nature carpet

Bishkek -  Spring. Through the snow appears young grass and this old carpet.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja – Bishkek Lab

Lost panty

Bishkek -  Investigation requested Dear girls who of you lost a panty nearby a beauty salon? Description: It’s long and black. If you recognize it on this photo, call……
Raisat Musaeva – Bishkek Lab

Labor

Ramallah -  Rubbish collection, as many other jobs in Ramallah, is done mostly manually. Employees of the Municipality work early in the morning and in the afternoon to clean up the mess…
Khaldun Bshara – Ramallah Lab

Indiscriminate Disposal of Polythene on Urban

Dhaka -  Polythene is one of the commonest chemical by-products that is found across all societies in urban areas.polythene products are non degradable and products that constitute health and environmental hazard…
Abdus Sabur – Dhaka Lab

Gaining a little more

Sao Paulo -  How to get a little bit more space for the rubbish? simple, take something that can be used as wall, like some doors for example, put it laterally in a…
Ze Carlos Barretta – Sao Paulo Lab

Old soviet car

Bishkek -  An old model of soviet car “Zhiguli”, dismantled for parts, can sometimes develop your imagination. You can always remember a childhood and play, imagining yourself as a driver inside of…
Elena Chigibaeva – Bishkek Lab

National secretary office of Catadores

Sao Paulo -  Despite the informality of the job of catadores there is a support organisation that helps the collectives organise themselves. The only principle the collectives have to accept is, work as…
Lino Hellings – Sao Paulo Lab

lets have a seat (2)

Ramallah -  A thrown-out chair and a carpet/trash in another street in Ramallah…
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

Inside out: soup

Rotterdam -  Soup from trash. Collected in a hole in the street. Soup must be served when it’s hot! Rotterdam is a hot soup! Location: Rotterdam Crooswijk Photo taken by Erika Blikman…
Erika Blikman – Rotterdam Lab

I see Gaia!

Dhaka -  When I first came to Dhaka from Chittagong, I found it to be a concrete jungle: a canopy of high-rises over a habitat of machines. Greenery is hard to find…
Adnan Wahid – Dhaka Lab

Not office chairs

Bishkek -  It has been decided not to throw away those chairs. Now it is used during break.…
Tatyana Zelenskaja – Bishkek Lab

Nap

Sao Paulo -  Nothing better than a rest in the afternoon, after a hard work taking paper in the street to sell. This is one of the way brazilian like to live. Sao…
Ines Correa – Sao Paulo Lab

Lets have a seat (1)

Ramallah -  A thrown-out trash/sofa with greenery in the background in one of the streets in Ramallah.. …
Aya Tahhan – Ramallah Lab

Inside out/ industrious birds.

Rotterdam -  These birds are very common in Dutch canals. They have the peculiar habit to build nests from everything drifting around in the water. Not only branches but food and plastics…
Lino Hellings – Rotterdam Lab

Hierarchy

Bishkek -  Life is all about hierarchy - in animal life and in human life, somebody stronger and have more power and somebody stays on the lower part of the ladder.…
Nellya Dzhamanbaeva – Bishkek Lab