Stung Meanchey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, has the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most famous rubbish dumps. It was, in the words of one resident, “hell on earth”. Night and day, thousands of waste pickers – people who gather, sort, reuse and sell the materials others throw away – toiled on the 100-acre mound of festering rubbish. Families fashioned homes from rubbish, on top of rubbish. They ate rubbish, fought over it – and even died over it. (The Guardian).

Zaza intimately documented the daily life of Li & Siem who she became friends with. They offered her a view into their life on the ‘Smoky Mountain’. Back at the time she was still studying at the Academy and unfortunately her project never received the attention wanted to help the waste pickers like she intended to. (Jean-Marc Bodson)