Dan Bigelow
Sorted and baled recycled materials of NYC
Sunset Park Materials Recovery Facility, Brooklyn, NY. Sorted and baled recycled materials of NYC. June 2014. I first visited the municipal recycling plant in Brooklyn while on an assignment to photograph some heavy equipment in use there, and on a tour of the plant I was amazed by the stacks of neatly baled and sorted materials. Each bale was similarly compacted and shaped, but this brought out the individuality of the materials, and as a personal project I decided to revisit the plant and shoot still-life photographs of the different bales. By isolating each of the bales on a seamless background I allow their similarities and differences to be more apparent.