1.99 | PRIVATE 42 | 2008 | Social Issues
The photographers of this volume report the world as they have researched, investigated, explored, experienced and discovered it, and decided to tell us about.
Tobias Hitsch is a freelance photographer born in Switzerland in 1975.
The photographers of this volume report the world as they have researched, investigated, explored, experienced and discovered it, and decided to tell us about.
Our planet is in crisis; a crisis captured through this collection of photo essays taken by world-class photographers. It tells a story of environmental degradation and gives a voice to some of the forgotten peoples who are paying the price. This issue of PRIVATE takes us on a journey across the world, highlighting the human and environmental costs of “development” from our rivers and land to the skies above us.
The Zabbaleen are a community of waste pickers living not far from one of Cairo’s main tourist attractions; the Citadel. They are slightly hidden near the Mokattam Hills, in a place locally known as Garbage City.
The photographers of this volume report the world as they have researched, investigated, explored, experienced and discovered it, and decided to tell us about.
