Recyclé

Fruit de vingt ans de reportage sur la thématique des déchets, cet album engagé parcourt le monde, de Suisse au Kazakhstan en passant par l'Irak. Le photographe D. Ruef se fait l'écho des situations diverses dans lesquelles l'humanité révèle ce qu'elle provoque en matière de protection de l'environnement.

This book offers twenty photo essays carried out between 1991 and 2008 by the photographer Didier Ruef on the themes of waste and recycling.. From Switzerland to China, Kazakhstan, the United States, Nauru or Iraq, Ruef captured a variety of situations which reveals the face of humanity behind the waste it produces, recycles or has to endure. Here are 238 images from a committed photographer, which urge the reader to understand and act, more forcefully than conventional calls, to protect the environment.. For centuries man has recovered and recycled the residues of his productive activities. Then came the era of waste as everyday companion.. Our affluent societies are fueling the growing production of goods without taking into account the waste that generates in itself, becoming an industry whose purpose is its elimination. Today, faced with demographic and economic growth and the increasing fragility of the ecosystems, it is no longer possible to bury our refuse and toxic waste with the illusion that we have disposed of it forever, that it has been irreversibly sterilised.. Didier Ruef regurlarly publishes his photos in Swiss and international media..