The documentary titled “Wastelands” follows artist Vik Muniz
on his almost three year journey home to Brazil to visit the world’s largest
landfill and draw inspiration from the “Catadores” which is Portuguese for
garbage pickers. Initially his goal was to give back to the place he once
called home and in doing so he had the chance to meet some amazing people. Throughout
the documentary you can see how the daily interactions where sort of a humbling
experience for Vic. We got to see how people who we may consider less fortunate
take so much pride in what they do day to day. It was wonderful to get to know each person along with the
artist because they each had amazing personalities as well as see how such a wonderful encounter has influenced
each Catador. It was in a way a little difficult for me to watch because as the story went on you can see that Vic gave them a peek at a different life and then you realize that these people take pride in what they do because they have no other choice, but given the chance being a catador would be the last thing on their list.When first seeing the
documentary I was intrigued by his “sugar babies” portraits and grew really
anxious to see how he would make portraits out of garbage possible.
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