South Africa is a place of extremists. Beauty and ugliness go hand in hand against a background of spirituality and materiality. I chose to spend a few days in the town of Swato which is on the outskirts of Johannesburg in South Africa and accompany the groups of recyclers - children, boys and men (age ranging from 3 to 50) who make a living by scavenging the waste of civilization and selling it. Those are mainly young people, some of whom even grew up in normal families, but with drug addiction, they ended up in the dumps of Swato and this occupation.
David Kritsun (TLV, 1987), spots the elegance in the gross and the ugliness in beauty. A hunter for godly coincidences, people, and emotions. Knowing there is life in everything, it is the artist’s role to find and present it to the world. David’s mission is to create a need for change in the state of our current civilization.
