While browsing through some 2009 images for a client, I have come across images from a photoshoot in St. Bartolome, a few miles from Puerto del Carmen in the Canaryan island of Lanzarote. This volcanic island is a vacation hot spot for European tourists, who flood the beaches year around looking for sunshine. What remains from the exploitation of this place is large amounts of garbage, usually hidden away. I photographed this garbage dump for a few weeks, documenting the new objects that were discarded amidst the hills.
I imagine that José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won a Nobel Prize just a few years ago and lived in Lanzarote until his death last year, would be saddened to see these images.
This is what our modern times often look like, unfortunately.
