The Inferno
by Stuart Williams
In his guided tour of Hell, Dante never saw anything that approximated to this, the smouldering trash area in Maputo, Mozambique. He did, however, encounter a wide variety of grotesque things that happened to sinners there ...
The land fills are festering, smouldering pits with a toxic pall that hangs over them. This, here, is one of the larger ones. And, yes, there are people making their living from them; this is a life they fiercely defend. I don't know the stats about life-expectancy of these people ...
Thanks for looking; comments and thoughts welcome.
d700, 80-200mm. DOF kept shallow to enhance 'ghostly' figure in the smoke. converted to b&w in CS2 using channel mixer. those little white dots are flies, swarms of flies.
Comments
1 commentsInteresting story, and the photo dramaticlly shows one of those who make their living at the landfill. I really could not identify a human figure in this shot until I read your description, however. Still, since a reader would probably see a headline, the figure would be quite identifiable, so I think this would work well.