Ekaterina Balaban (DocDocDoc)
Influence of the Landfill
Bronze
Interpretive Project
The aim of the project is to explore how rubbish interacts with nature and people basing on the example of Landfill in Kuchino which is 60 hectares. This is the second biggest landfill in Moscow Region.
The project reveals the combination of three elements: nature, man and rubbish. All the three elements are interconnected: a man is the part of nature and rubbish is the part of a man. What’s more, man and nature are involved in the eternal conflict and constantly suppress each other. The key link of the chain is man who influences the nature producing rubbish, what subsequently has influence on himself.
Idea of the project is to show the impact of landfill basing on the examples of my own photos. What will happen with the printed photos if they become rubbish? Will they lose their value? To show the influence of landfill I don´t only take the pictures of people and waste they produce but I also turn landfill into the co-author of creating images. The photos were placed in a landfill for 1 week and then scanned.
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Shelter on the top of the landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
The child from Kuchino on the Landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
On the top of the landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Things found on the landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Homeless swims in the river near the Landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Rubbish
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
In the settlement of homeless people near the dump
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Homeless gay in his hut near the landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Homeless gay sleaps in his house near the Dump
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Leachate lake near the landfill
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
Dogs, gulls, crows, pigeons, rats and big white hares inhabit the landfill. At night foxes come here and on the tops live bats
Story: Influence of the Landfill
Lanndfill Kuchino
The Kuchino landfill site: Maximum height – 80 meters Total area – more than 50 ha Distance to the closest house in Kuchino – 200 meters Each year adopts up to 600 000 tons of rubbish from Moscow and Moscow Region