Nick Ballon. La Chira Landfill, Lima, Peru “The only beings to inhabit Villa are disfigured dogs and human scavengers, who squat among the filth searching for scraps of metal. They work in silence, deaf and mute to the world. The only thing to invade their space is the acrid smell of burning plastic creeping through their nostrils, wafting with the flumes of smoke that climb suspiciously from burning embers on the ground”

 

Nick Ballon.

La Chira Landfill, Lima, Peru

“The only beings to inhabit Villa are disfigured dogs and human scavengers, who squat among the filth searching for scraps of metal. They work in silence, deaf and mute to the world. The only thing to invade their space is the acrid smell of burning plastic creeping through their nostrils, wafting with the flumes of smoke that climb suspiciously from burning embers on the ground”