Desperation

Photographer

João Coelho

Category

Editorial Photography - Documentary

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2024

Country / Region:

Portugal

Another day spent at the dump where they live and work, scavenging the spoils of others to survive. Pieces of metal, cans, bottles, and even food scraps, everything is carefully collected to sell or eat. But the garbage is not always kind to them, sometimes the city leaves them almost nothing. It is at the end of the afternoon, after they have worked hard scavenging through the piles dumped by the garbage trucks, that disappointment and despair overwhelms them. The despair of a mother and father who don't know how they will feed their child