They work on their knees, eight hours each day, in a cave not higher than three feet. The coal miners of West Virginia have one of the hardest blue collar jobs in America. Hard.Land is a multimedia project – a journey through Blue Collar America to ...
Rose Thompson is 25 years old and lives with her one year old daughter Alyah and her husband Josh in a 64 square feet (6 square meter) room in a an apartment block in in West Chicago. “My wage is 8,36 dollar per hour. I am not even close to being able ...
The city of Gary, Indiana has lost half it’s population since the 1960s. Photographer Chuck Waller takes images of building he remembers from his childhood which are now ruins. “The only thing you can keep is your memories.” Hard.Land ...
Greenland’s vast natural resources, ranging from oil and gas to uranium, rare earth and iron ore, have remained largely inaccessible under thick layers of ice, making them too difficult and expensive to extract. But with a receding ice sheet and ...
John Bryant lives beside the Rouge River. The area is cluttered with chemical factories and oil refineries. “This area looks like a dump. People are dumping trash, oil, furniture and everything else in the streets. A lot of the houses have been ...
Nine year old Tyshawn Lee was shot at the end of 2015 in Chicago’s South Side, an area with one of the highest murder rates in the US. “Chicago glorified violence since Al Capone” says Derek Darren. “You think of Chicago, you ...
The firefighters of Detroit are among the busiest and toughest in the world. On a single shift which lasts for 24 hours, Jim Curry and his men can go from one fire to another for hours. Detroit has over 60,000 abandoned buildings. All too often, they are...
The fabricators at High Steel Structures are building the new America, with their own hands. And they’re proud of it. In Williamsport, Pennsylvania the rust belt and blue collar America is not down and out. It is thriving. Hard.Land is a multimedia...
The growth of US industry and the middle class – even the development of Detroit, “Motor City”, itself are all down to the work and ambition of the Ford family. Once upon a time, Detroit put the world on wheels. Now, after the ...
Jesse Boggoss received the Medal of Honor and 15 other medals for his service in the Vietnam War. He killed more people than he can count. Jesse now lives by himself far up in the mountains of West Virginia in a house full of weapons and in a body full ...
When Adam Patterson moved to London and began taking pictures of London gang members, he struck up a friendship with a gang leader called Vipoh (aka Jean-Claude Dagrou) who headed up a crew known as the Loughborough Soldiers. Patterson has been tracing ...
Oanh, a young woman in Vietnam, needs regular dialysis but can’t pay for the treatment from her meagre salary as a tea seller. While a tiny minority of people have become rich in the country, the gulf between them and the majority of the population...
A short film about the arrival of First Quantum Minerals mining company in a small village in Peru and the negotiations about access, water use and other effects of mining between the company administration and the miners. ...
In the Siberian state of Yakutia, the exploding number of wolves is impacting indigenous livelihoods. Meet Ion Maxsimovic, the region’s best wolf hunter. ...
Poaching of protected animals for their tusks and other body parts is funding militia in many fragile states and governments like Gabon are becoming increasingly alarmed by the threat posed by wildlife trafficking to national security. Rebel groups, drug...