Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth
Categories: Ecology | North America
By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/mexican-mixteca-is-the-most-eroded-place-on-earth.htmlPhotographer Matt Black visited Mishtek in July 2011. The photos taken there are part of an ongoing long-term photo project telling about the region and its people. This time Black focused his attention on agriculture and its problems associated with severe soil erosion.
Here's what he writes:
1. Collapsed rocks are pouring towards the village.
2. Houses are gradually falling through.
3. Locals carry things from destroyed houses in the village.
4. Cleaning in a cornfield affected by a landslide.
5. People carry the surviving wheat crop from a field damaged by a landslide.
6. A boy on the ruins of his house.
7. Temporary shelter for the family.
8. A boy in his family's house.
9. Local family.
10. People are resting near their car next to the road.
11. Collecting materials from a destroyed house.
12. The boy goes home on the crumbling slope.
13. Shepherd dog on a hill near the city.
14. Fragments of rocks on an eroded field.
15. A woman inspects her damaged cornfield.
16. Harvesting wheat in a cracked field.
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