The City of the Dead of Cairo is a cemetery, but here lives about one million and half people. This a vision from a place where it’s Life and Death, together.
The city of the dead
Photographer(s): Michele Cortina
Tag Archives | Cairo
Jan Locus | Garbage City
The Zabbaleen (“Garbage people” in Egyptian Arabic) are Coptic Christians who migrated to Cairo 60 years ago and became the garbage collectors of the city. Their family-run micro-enterprises have created one of the most efficient recycling systems in the world. They recycle up to 80% of what they collect, whereas most private garbage collecting companies can […]
Photographer(s): Jan Locus
