Smokey Mountain


  • Photographer
    Nigel Dickinson
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Leader Photos
  • Date of Photograph
    2007
  • Technical Info
    Digital 35mm

Smokey Mountain rubbish dump, started as a landfill site sixty years ago, and is now inside Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The grey cloud of acrid smoke exuding from constantly burning garbage gives it its nickname. There are over 2,000 casual workers, including 600 children, who scavenge the dumpsite, collecting plastic, metal and paper. These are sorted, cleaned, weighed, and sold for recycling. People work, eat, and sleep amidst the rubbish and constant fumes, their strenuous labor earns them $1 per day. Waste pickers even work night-shifts using miner's lamps. It is a place notorious for pollution, crime, and disease.

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