Guangdong Province, China, 2004 (left) and Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 1996 (right).
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Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1994.
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New Orleans, US, 2005.
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Torino, Italy, 1993 (left), and Kuito, Angola, 2000.
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Znamenka, Kazakhstan, 2008.
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Geneva, Switzerland, 1991.
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Manila, Philippines, 1992.
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Bugin, Kazakhstan, 2008 (left) and Baghdad, Iraq, 2003.
Didier Ruef
Baku, Azerbaijan, 2007.
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Kuito, Angola, 2000.
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Alang, India, 1992 (left) and Nauru, Republic of Nauru, 1999.
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Alang, India, 1992.
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Swiss photographer Didier Ruef has travelled the world documenting waste management practices.
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In Switzerland, China, Kazakhstan, the United States, the Republic of Nauru and Iraq, Ruef aimed to reveal the nature of humanity by photographing society’s waste and the management of it, the consequences of which are often tragic. Waste is removed from sight, but what happens away from people’s prying eyes?
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