Electronics and Metal Recycling
This image is a sad contrast to typical images of people carrying food or water on their heads. The literal burden of electronic waste may connect viewers with what life looks like at the end of our consumer choices.
Cavan
Rights Managed
WHAT IT SHOWS: Burning of computer wire and parts to recover copper and other metals in Accra, Ghana. The computers are shipped here from Europe and the USA and some are reused but majority are dumped in Ghana. Poor workers often from the northern poorer region of Ghana do the work and sell the copper to buyers who send the copper to China or India.
Photo by
Peter Essick
Principles:
Show 'real people', not staged photo-ops