Caracas, Venezuela - The Guaire River is the sewer of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The city's wastewater empties into the river, turning it brown and filling the air with a nauseating stench.
But since
Venezuela's economic crisis began it is here, in this sewage-filled water, that some Venezuelans search for a means of survival, a way to earn a little money and to feed their families.
Every day, groups of Venezuelans sift through the rubbish and excrement that has been dumped into the river in the hope of finding jewelry that may have fallen down somebody's drain and ended up in the sewer.
It isn't only on the river that people scavenge.
The Francisco Fajardo highway is just downstream. Six people live under its bridge amid the noise and fumes of the passing cars.
Like many other Venezuelans living in Caracas, they are forced to search for their daily food in the rubbish.
In the late afternoons, when supermarkets close and restaurants throw away their leftovers, they go in search of them, scavenging through bins in the hope of finding something to eat.
Three to four small group share the within fewer than 100 meters surrounded by rubbish and plastic bags swept down the river.
Sift Through the rubbish they have collected in the sewers at the Guaire river searching for a piece of gold and silver.
Looks for food in a rubbish bag,
A man drinks the remains of milk left in a bottle he found while looking for food in the rubbish.
Homeless people live under a bridge,
Life under a bridge.
