Remade

"Remade" is a personal project about Los Angeles recyclers, individuals often in transitional stages of their lives who sell recycleble materials for small cash refunds. For some, it's a full time occupation. For others, it's a way to make some money on the side. Once collected and compacted, the materials travel to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach where they are loaded onto container ships bound for Asia. There they will be remade into new objects. The liminal space that the recyclers and the materials share is what fascinated me.

Environmental portrait of a man wearing a black cap and white t-shirt pushing a shopping cart filled with metal kitchenware inside a warehouse or storage facility.
Portrait young girl wearing a pink shirt and pink pants, smiling at the camera, standing in front of large mesh waste bins filled with plastic bottles, with a man and a person in a cap in the background near a recycling or waste collection area.
A documentary portrait of a man with a mustache and gray hair standing next to a cart filled with grocery bags, boxes, and cardboard at a recycling facility.
A portrait of a woman in a yellow long-sleeve shirt and jeans standing in a warehouse or industrial setting, wearing plastic gloves.
A documentary portrait of a middle-aged man with a beard and dark hair wearing a black T-shirt with a skull graphic standing in a recycling or trash facility, with bins of bottles and scattered trash in the background.
A documentary portrait of a man wearing a blue cap and gray jacket sitting at a table in a laundromat with washing machines and notices on the wall behind him.

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