ENTRY DESCRIPTION
For many people, landfills are simply places to store discarded items. But for children and poor families in the highlands in Sapa town - Lao Cai - Vietnam, trash is a source of livelihood.
Picking up trash to make a living is a job for some people, among them the 13-year-old A Vung sisters. A Vung often searches for something valuable in a landfill on an arid plain about 1.5 km west of Sapa town every day. But this job has never been as challenging as it is now. The national economic crisis along with the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic have affected the amount of garbage, making the income of those who rely on landfills in Sapa also become more difficult.

AUTHOR
Nguyen Ho Quan was born in 1986 in Vietnam. A freelance photographer, his photography works towards the perspectives of society, with a style that explores photographic themes in the direction of in-depth human life, in depth perspectives on human life, Social life has created a series of photos "Life garbage" displayed at the Lugano Museum - Switzerland.
It was the photo series "Life garbage" that won the overall first place at the "Unpublished Photo 2022 - UP22" photo contest organized by Fondazione culture e musei e dal MUSEC di Lugano and Milanese Gallery 29 Arts in Progress. In 2021 he won Bronze at the "World Photography Awards 2021" photo contest organized by the World Cultural Arts Organization (WCAO) and the North America Photography Association in United Nations (NAPA). He is the winner of the portrait contest "Shoottheframe February 2022". In the photo contest INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2022 (IPA 2022) he was awarded the HONORABLE MENTION, in the category of Professional Editing. He has reached the finals of many photo contests around the world such as: All aboutphoto 2023, Drone Photo Awards 2022, Envision's 2022 Our World, HIPA 2021 (Nature)...

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