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Distro - Ghana’s Tech Dump: The Untold Story 

Magnum Photographers 

It is not surprising that it is difficult to gain access to the Agbogbloshie ‘tech dump’ just on the periphery of Accra, Ghana. Not only has the site, where tons of electronic waste, including computers and other consumer goods from all over the world ends up, been accused of illegal and unsafe practices employed to burn waste in order to separate out valuable elements like copper wire and silver from digital components, but years of negative press has portrayed it as somewhat of a hell hole. Photographs of burning rubble, sick cattle and unwell workers overshadow – or omit completely – a story... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A man in the Agbogbloshie e-waste... 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Scrap metal piled high at the... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Reclaimed parts being weighed... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A woman selling mangoes picks... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Men scavenging for parts at... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. CDs stacked on a table at the... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Money changing hands at Agbogbloshie,... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A worker at the Agbogbloshie... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Metal car-doors and gates form... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A Nigerian migrant worker extracting... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. The shells of various pieces... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A man strips copper wire from... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Men sit under an umbrella at... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Food vendors at the Agbogbloshie... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A man at the Agbogbloshie e-waste... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A woman washes cooking utensils... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Muslim workers praying and... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Piles of debris outside the... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A man selling computer monitors... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Men searching for usable parts... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. A small boy sits with female... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Vendors selling second hand... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Men stripping electrical equipment... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Men scavenging for parts at... 

Carl De Keyzer 2016

Ghana. Accra. Agbogbloshie. 2016. Satellite dishes atop shacks... 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 

Nikos Economopoulos 2016

GHANA. Accra, 2016.
Agbogbloshie dump. 
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