Photographer based in Cairo, Egypt >> Shawn Baldwin

Zabaleen, Egypt

A woman carried a child through a trash-filled street in Cairo. The organic waste the zabaleens collect is fed to pigs, but the government of Egypt is killing the pigs, a reaction to news that a swine influenza was spreading around the world. May 2009.
A woman carried a child through a trash-filled street in Cairo. The organic waste the zabaleens collect is fed to pigs, but the government of Egypt is killing the pigs, a reaction to news that a swine influenza was spreading around the world. May 2009.