Author Description

One of Thierry Jeannot's customers, a well-known interior designer who had purchased one of his gorgeous Rococo-style chandeliers for a very wealthy clientœs home, was in despair. When, during the installation of the piece the buyer realized that it had been manufactured out of trash collected by scavengers in Mexico City, she refused to have it hung. This book is a graphic compilation and field research conducted in Mexico City by the French designer based in Mexico in which he worked with scavengers and trash pickers in the recycling processes in a social/design project working alongside with people from the poorest areas of Mexico city. The book deals with the history of the pepenadoresʺ who, in a street situation, assume a precarious job in the informal economy. The pepenadores occupy the first step of the recycling chain cleaning the city of its polluting waste. By necessity, these ecological characters live in the underworld, relegated by society to the range of waste they classify, while their work makes Mexico City.