Michael Zajakowski A well-crafted photo essay of backbreaking, grueling and dangerous work. This story shows the extent to which some people struggle to survive. The fact that these are young men proves that this is an arduous endeavor. The photographs accurately portray the herculean effort to make this salvaging worthwhile.
It all begins at the bottom of this bay, a dark world where the presence of man is not welcome. It's in this realm, strewn with iron and sharp plates that come apart from the hulls of ships that are succumbing to rust, that a group of fearless youths defy immense risks every day to retrieve iron to sell. It's a titanic effort that only ends on the beach when they succeed in loading the heavy pieces onto bikes that take them to a zone where they are weighed
