Photographer based in Cairo, Egypt >> Shawn Baldwin

Zabaleen, Egypt

Zabaleens tied garbage bags to a truck in a mainly Coptic Christian neighborhood in Cairo last week. Hundreds of thousands of people have made their lives and a community by collecting Cairo's trash and transforming it into a commodity. May 2009.
Zabaleens tied garbage bags to a truck in a mainly Coptic Christian neighborhood in Cairo last week. Hundreds of thousands of people have made their lives and a community by collecting Cairo's trash and transforming it into a commodity. May 2009.