Mick Hartley

We've seen Accra's Agbogbloshie dump before, with Pieter Hugo's portraits of young Ghanaians trying to scrape a living by scavenging for metals from old electronic equipment. Now, from her series “Burning Dreams”, here's Italian photographer Carolina Rapezzi:

Rashida is a young girl originally from the north of Ghana who sells water in the scrap yard of Agbogbloshie. © Carolina Rapezzi

Workers burning cables, tires and parts of appliances in the Kilimanjaro burning area. Big fires are set at night in order to extract as much metal scrap as possible to be collected in the morning. © Carolina Rapezzi

Nathaniale, 18 from Bolgatanga, has now spent eight years in the scrap yard. His job is to burn appliances and cables in order to extract raw materials like copper, aluminum and iron and then resell them. © Carolina Rapezzi

View of Old Fadama from the Kilimanjaro burning area in the Agbogbloshie scrap yard. © Carolina Rapezzi

Gaffarou, 17 from Savelugu, takes a break from the burning in the Kilimanjaro burning area. Son of farmers, Gaffarou became deaf during his childhood, he couldn’t go to school because of his condition and he can communicate only lipreading and gesticulating. © Carolina Rapezzi