The toy workshop

Photographer

João Coelho

Category

Editorial Photography - Documentary

Company

Submission Group

Amateur

Year

2024

Country / Region:

Portugal

He was born and lives in a dump. In this gloomy world, permanently covered in a pall of toxic fumes, toys have to be invented, or simply reinvented with the right amount of imagination and ingenuity. A bike rim that has withstood the fires set by piles of garbage and a simple stick of the right size are enough to give birth to something new and exciting. Surrounded by toxic fumes and an army of angry flies, it is in this surreal workshop that he patiently creates the simplest toy that can exist, reminding us that children can be children even in the worst places in the world to live