The Pickers of Dandora

A photographic tour of the toxic otherworld in Dandora -- Nairobi's mountainous waste land.

BY MICAH ALBERT | APRIL 19, 2012

"Tiger" is Dandora's gatekeeper. City trucks pay his cartel to enter the site. He grew-up eating the leftovers of Nairobi's airline passengers and has spent most of his life working at the site.

Micah Albert

 

Micah Albert is a photojournalist. You can see more of his work on his website.

This story was reported with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.