Kids of Copper
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▪️ KIDS OF COPPER, 2019
by
Vicente Albero Irles
Between 2014 and 2017, Vicente Albero travelled to the Agbogbloshie district in Accra, the capital of Ghana. He wanted to know firsthand the landfill of Sikkens, recognised as one of the most important technological garbage dumps in the world and the ultimate destination of an infinity of objects discarded by our western societies. Following the trail of these electronic waste, he came face to face with a parallel human landscape of youth and children also abandoned to their fate in this amazing African dump, where they survive exposed to conditions of extreme insalubrity. There, loaded with his curiosity and his cameras, he forged a lasting friendship, made of copper and bonfires, with some of them, and especially with Small, whom he sought and accompanied in successive trips to understand and question the many implications of this fierce consumerism and the abandonment of the most basic environmental principles.
Between 2014 and 2017, Vicente Albero travelled to the Agbogbloshie district in Accra, the capital of Ghana. He wanted to know firsthand the landfill of Sikkens, recognised as one of the most important technological garbage dumps in the world and the ultimate destination of an infinity of objects discarded by our western societies. Following the trail of these electronic waste, he came face to face with a parallel human landscape of youth and children also abandoned to their fate in this amazing African dump, where they survive exposed to conditions of extreme insalubrity. There, loaded with his curiosity and his cameras, he forged a lasting friendship, made of copper and bonfires, with some of them, and especially with Small, whom he sought and accompanied in successive trips to understand and question the many implications of this fierce consumerism and the abandonment of the most basic environmental principles.
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