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The Waste Pickers of Dandora

The scavengers of Dandora — men, women, children, flesh-eating Marabou storks, and wild pigs — battle daily for the discarded waste generated by the people and businesses of Nairobi, Kenya. With a population of almost 4.5 million, Dandora, the 30-acre central dumping site for the city, appears to heave and groan as it releases fumes into the air, creating a toxic stew unparalleled on the continent.

As British photographer Sam Barker states after visiting the site, “Cartel gangs run things and operate as part of a fully functioning economic system serving some 3,000 local families in Dandora and the surrounding slums. With its own rules, system ...

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Max Hirshfeld

Max Hirshfeld is an American photographer who grew up in a house full of books and music to parents who survived Auschwitz and settled in small-town Alabama. His father, a child prodigy who played piano with The Warsaw Philharmonic at the age of nine, pushed him to explore the arts with a curiosity born from generations of intellectual and artistic pursuits.

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