TITLE: Living life at the landfill

The amount of plastic waste and plastic bags in Vietnam accounts for about 8-12% of domestic solid waste. But only about 11-12% of plastic waste and plastic bags are treated and recycled, the rest is mainly buried, burned and discharged into the environment.
And it is at these landfills that are the source of life for a small part of the community around the landfills.
Every day people and domestic animals go to the landfill to search for what is left to make a living.
Lives attached to landfill is a photo project carried out from 2019 until 2023.
At a landfill on the outskirts of Hanoi City - Vietnam is the daily living of a small community. This small community often fluctuates 6-8 families (Mrs. Mui, Ms. Thom, Mr. Uy, Mr. Hanh, Mr. Qua...) make a daily living here, some families live right at the landfill, they are not only Collecting scrap also raises more pets such as goats, dogs, chickens to increase life income.
Families here divide work shifts according to the days of the month, starting from 6:30 am to 19:30 every day. Working in a polluted environment has affected their health a lot, especially on the respiratory tract. Daily life goes on in anxiety, in the uncertainty of fate

AUTHOR: Nguyen Ho Quan (Viet Nam)

Nguyen Ho Quan is a Vietnamese photographer, born in 1986. He has won many prestigious photography awards in the world. His photographic works aim at rich perspectives on society's life, with a photographic style that exploits the direction of the story content, in-depth perspectives on life.
The photo series "Life garbage" displayed and kept at the Lugano Museum - Switzerland is the result of his long term photographic labor to reflect social issues. It was the photo series "Life garbage" that was honored to win the final photo contest "Unpublished photos 2022" organized by Fondazione culture e musei e dal MUSEC di Lugano and Milanese Gallery 29 Arts in Progress.
His "Living life at the landfill" photo series, which was awarded an honorary prize at the Monovisionsawards monochrome photography competition, reflects human community life in black and white in depth under the impact of the environment.
In the International Photography Awards 2022 (IPA 2022) photo contest, he was awarded the Honorary Award in the Professional Editing category with the most pressing environmental theme of today's society. He is the winner of the portrait contest "Shoottheframe February 2022".
In 2021 he won the Bronze Award at the "World Photography Awards 2021" photo contest organized by the World Culture and Arts Organization (WCAO) and the North American Photographic Association at the United Nations (NAPA).
And was a finalist in many photo contests around the world such as: All aboutphoto 2023, Drone Photo Awards 2022, Envision's 2022 Our World, HIPA 2021 (Nature)...
Currently, he is engaged in photography training, training photo editors for young people in Vietnam.
EXHIBITION
. 2022 - 2023: Unpublished Photo 2022 –UP22/ Spazio Maraini di Villa Malpensata a Lugano, Switzerland.
. 2022 – The Indian Photo Festival Exhibition IPF in 2022/ Hyderabad, India.
. 2021 - ColorPro Award / London, United Kingdom/ Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
. 2023 - Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists VN-23/Hanoi, Vietnam.
PRIZE
. 2023 – Monovision Photography Award/Honorary Award.
. 2023: All About Photo Award Year 2023/ Finalist.
. 2022 – Unpublished Photo Award (Unpublished Photo 2022)/ Overall Winner.
. 2022 - IPA International Photography Awards/ Professional: Editorial – Environment/ Honorary Award.
. 2022 – Shoottheframe Prize / Winner.
. 2022 – Drone Photo Awards / Finals.
. 2022 – The Our World is Kind Photography Contest/ Final.
. 2021 – World Photography Awards 2021/WPA/ Bronze.