Reportage South America
Carnival of the garbage collectors
26 Bilder
The Barrio Unido, situated in the outskirts of Montevideo, is made of rubbish. Rugged cloth and nailed tin sheets are the basis of the houses in this shantytown and the people literally live from the garbage: They work as garbage...
Rural parish in Titicachi
27 Bilder
Titicachi is very isolated: Travelling by bus from La Paz to this remote Andean valley can take up to 20 hours. Here the German Max Schiller has been working as a parish priest for 30 years now, almost as a hermit among the indigenous Aymara....
Life in the Baixada Fluminense
32 Bilder
Baixada Fluminense is the name of the sprawling suburban belt of Rio de Janeiro und has more inhabitants than the city itself. There are no exotic beaches to lure the tourists in the vast favelas and the anonymous high-rises of the Baixada. There...
