Show Navigation
back to search results
Info

Medio Ambiente (Serie) 2011, 2ndo premio

Domingo Leon, 63, a Quechua from the higlands in Yungay collects guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The job is exhausting, they dig until the rock is exposed and then brush the last remains of guano until the entire island is just solid rock is exposed. The daily task is to collect around 35 sacks of 50kg per worker.

Filename
LAT01-07-MuniT-A-02.JPG
Copyright
POY LATAM
Image Size
2500x1681 / 939.5KB
Contained in galleries
Tomas Munita, 1er premio, 2011
Domingo Leon, 63, a Quechua from the higlands in Yungay collects guano in Guañape Norte Island in the coast off Peru, April 2009. The job is exhausting, they dig until the rock is exposed and then brush the last remains of guano until the entire island is just solid rock is exposed. The daily task is to collect around 35 sacks of 50kg per worker.