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Photographer: Visarut Sankham

You might know that Thailand is an agricultural country, where people grow their food by digging into the field. In comparison, this man is also digging into the earth for his meal.
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Uncle Piek, 68-year-old man who lives just behind the dump site.
照片中的黃色卡車能讓我們推估垃圾場的規模。
This picture shows the size of the dump size in comparison to a yellow truck.
皮克每天清晨六點起床，接著動身前往他的農場。
Every day, Uncle Piek wakes up at 6 in the morning and gets to his farm.
皮克大叔在垃圾堆中翻找可供變賣的廢棄物。
Uncle Piek at the work place scavenging for something that can be sold.
當垃圾車抵達時，最好站在隊伍排頭，這樣就能輕鬆拿到新鮮的垃圾。
When the garbage truck arrives, it’s a good idea to be first in line because you can easily get some new trash.
載有廢五金的卡車每月會來垃圾場一兩次。因為廢五金能高價售出，所以對大家來說都像是額外獎金。
A truck that contains metal garbage can come to this dump site once or twice a month. This kind of garbage can be sold for a high price, therefore this time of a month is like a bonus for all.
血汗勞工的午餐時間。
Lunch time for the hard-working people.
皮克大叔正在分類垃圾，把同類的丟作一堆。
Uncle Piek doing recycling.
每位在這裡謀生的拾荒者都有各自存放垃圾的地方，照片中是皮克大叔的存放場。
Every scavenger who works here has their own place to store their trash. This is Uncle Piek’s storage.
每個星期都會有人來到垃圾場，收購皮克大叔的當周收成。
Every week there will be someone that comes to the dump site to buy all the trash Uncle Piek collected.
皮克大叔正在清點他賣垃圾的所得。
Uncle Piek is going through the money he earned from selling his trash.
如你所見，這座村莊就坐落在垃圾山旁。
As you can see, the village is located just behind the mountains of garbage.
皮克大叔和他的家人。
Uncle Piek and his family.
晚餐時間。
Dinner time.
皮克大叔看電視時，他的孫子就在一旁寫作業。
While uncle Piek watches television, his grandson does his homework.
只要這種日子繼續，皮克大叔就得回到他的農場。
As life goes on, Uncle Piek still needs to return to his farm.

BACKGROUND

Uncle Piek is one of trash farmer in the garbage mountain from Ban Kum bon village, Khonkaen, Thailand.

DURING THE SCENE

During this documentary, we spent 48 hours with Uncle Piek.

MEMORABLE MOMENTS

Even Uncle Piek is quite poor but this is the guy with the biggest heart I have ever met.

EQUIPMENT

I’m using Cannon 60D with 10-20mm Sigma, 30mm 1.4 Sigma and Cannon 85mm 1.8.

EDITING SKILLS

This photo set was edited by Light Room and Photoshop.

Edited by Olivia Yang

Rinse has authorized publication of this article. The original text is published here: Trash Farmer