Waste Land

Released tomorrow, 29th Oct 2010, is the documentary Waste Land by LucWalker. y Waste Land follows the artist Vik Muniz return to his homeland of Brazil and his visit to the largest garbage dump in the world, Rio de Janeiro. Here Muniz met the people who work and live in the garbage dump. He then created portraits of these people using ideas found from the garbage dump. These pieces of work where then auctioned off when Muniz returned to New York. All the processed from the auction where giving to the people of Rio de Janeiro. It will be an interesting watch, mainly how these pieces of art change the people life in Rio de Janeiro. Will they create permanent change or will it be a pasting fade in the history of the garbage dump.