iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Jardim Gramacho

Finding Hope Down in the Dump: A Visit with Tiao Carlos dos Santos, Champion of Rio Garbage Pickers

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 08.29.2012 | Green
Read More: Lucy Walker, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos, Waste Land, Rio+20 Earth Summit, Jardim Gramacho, Rio De Janeiro, Leila Monroe, Nrdc, Lisa Kaas Boyle, Tiao Carlos Dos Santos, Slater Jewell-Kemker, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Jardim Gramacho is no longer the densely populated village of scavengers and recyclers captured so provocatively in the film Waste Land. One of the largest open-air landfills on the planet, the facility was recently closed just weeks before The Rio + 20 Earth Summit.

Read Whole Story

PHOTOS: One Of The World's Largest Dumps Is No More

AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 08.01.2012 | World
Read More: Landfills, Vik Muniz, Jardim Gramacho, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Rio Olympics 2016, Guanabara-Bay, Tom-Jardim, United Nations Rio+20, Catadores, Video, World News

RIO DE JANEIRO — One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living s...

Read Whole Story

The 30th Istanbul Film Festival: Egyptian Film Wins the Golden Tulip Award

Karin Badt | Posted 06.18.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Turkish Cinema, Tulip Prize, Canon 7d, Sexual Abuse, Elisa K, Istanbul Film Festival, Jonathan Nossiter, Lucy Walker, Microphone, Ahmad Abdalla, Jardim Gramacho, Rio Sex Comedy, My Only Sunshine, Pandora's Box, Muniz, Waste-Land, Child Victims of Sexual Abuse, Entertainment News
Karin Badt

Two of the most delightful films I saw at the Istanbul Film Festival this past week took place in Rio. One, a documentary called Wasteland by British ...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: DOCUMENTARY: NY Artist Paints Rio De Janeiro's Garbage Pickers

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Jardim Gramacho, Brooklyn, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Vik Muniz, Los Angeles, Documentary, City of God, Film, Waste Land, Catadores, Garbage, Arts News

A Brooklyn artist visits the garbage dumps of Rio de Janeiro to paint the ragpickers. On the face of it, the project might seem to reek of exploitatio...

Read Whole Story