This family emigrated from the interior to the city, in search of survival, now that there are no possibilities of work left in the interior.
Gladys (34 yrs.) and Raúl Castellano (49) and their children: Víctor (15), Cristian (14), Miguel (12), Diego (11), Fabián (10) and Rocío (9), have lived for seven years reside alongside the tracks of the urban commuter San Martin train line. They have built their house of cardboard and sheet metal in front of a cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
All are “cartoneros” (they pick up discarded cardboard and paper from the garbage to resell for recycling) except Victor who works in a restaurant. None of the six children attend school.
According to their own words, they are better here, even though this implies living with the permanent danger of passing trains (every five minutes during peak hours) which has caused the deaths of many children and young people of other families.

Photography:
Color: Emilse Neme
Black and White: Don Rypka
Sudacaphotos
July, 2008

Technical Notes:
Color photographs: color negative film, out of date between 10 and 15 years, developed in C-41, ISO 400/800.
Black and white photographs in digital format.