Filmed over almost three years, Waste Land follows the well-known photographer Vik Muniz as he ventured from Brooklyn back to his homeland, Brazil.
He journeys to the worlds biggest rubbish dump site, Jadim Gramacho, located out side of Rio de Janeiro where he photographs a small group of ‘catadores’ (self designated pickers of recyclable materials).
He is inspired by these pickers and diverts from his original plans. He decides to recreated photographic images of the chosen ‘catadores’ out of the rubbish and recyclable materials.
It is both a sad and inspiring story, the lives of these pickers are very poor and it is moving to see how lives can be so unfortunate for some. But it is moving to see how the processes of recreating the images out of garbage can guide these people into a better life, and show them that there are more possibilities out there for them.
It is a must watch, the documentary is mostly in Brasillian but comes with subtitles and allows the viewer to see and feel the emotion through out the film.
And lets not forget how amazing the works of art are, to look at the photographs you would not think that the images have been created out of garbage. bellow are two of the final photographs.
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