Mexican Andy wore no protective suit, mask, or anything else. Just his usual clothes, a backpack, and the camera he uses to document his life. That is how he climbed the Ghazipur landfill, on the outskirts of New Delhi, to the top of what is now considered India’s tallest garbage mountain.
It is between 65 and 70 meters of waste accumulated over more than two decades, a height comparable to a 20-story building and close to that of the Taj Mahal. The landfill exceeded its capacity in 2002, but no one stopped using it. Thousands more tons arrive every day. Over the years, the garbage formed its own ecosystem, with rivers of contaminated liquid flowing through the waste.
You can watch the video and smell it through the image alone. Andy walked through that landscape so that the rest of the world could understand, without filters, how far what we stop seeing can go once we take the trash out of the house.