Photographer Manuela Federl is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this documentary photography. From the project ‘FAST FASHION IN GHANA’. To see Manuela’s body of work, click on any photograph.
Every day, 160 tones of old clothes arrive in Ghana from Europe, the USA and China. The Kantamanto market in the capital is the biggest old clothes bazaar in the country. The clothes there are cheap, people prefer to wear the old clothes of Europeans rather than their traditional clothes. As a result, there are fewer and fewer small tailor shops. The parcels also contain old, dirty goods. The unusable clothes end up in huge mountains of rubbish. The rivers carry the old clothes, which are often full of chemicals, into the sea. At the harbor in Jamestown, they are washed ashore again. The clothes get caught in the net by the fishermen, and the fish absorb the chemicals that the clothes leave behind in the sea. The biggest piles of rubbish are in Agbogbloshie. People here burn cables to get the copper out of them.
Tragic fates for which the over consumption of the western world is responsible.
All images and text © Manuela Federl
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By Manuela Federl
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I think this has two sides! Many thanks for this fact.
Excellent point of view. This is another “over consumption” by those of us in the Western world. Thank you for the great article.