These documentary images were taken between 1993 and 1995 in an abandoned steel & iron foundry in Balsthal, Switzerland.

When losing their jobs seemed imminent as a result of a severly depressed economy, workers in factories across Argentina decided to occupy their bankrupt factories, begin production again and reclaim their much-needed source of employment. IMPA, a metallurgic factory in the hear of Buenos Aires was the trailblazer in this growing movement that has been spreading rapidly across the country.

This is a portrait about the factory and the workers 12 years after the recuperation

that wrote Argentinian history.

These images show the process of cheese making on an Alp in Grindelwald, Switzerland. Shot on Kodak T-Max black and white film in 2006.

"Our work is not to recycle material, it's to recycle people," says Cristina Lescano, founder of Buenos Aires's oldest cooperative of urban recyclers, known as cartoneros. In 1989, as inflation climbed, factories shuttered, and jobs evaporated, seven women living in abandoned homes came together for survival. After eight years of picking through garbage, Lescano recalls, "We asked: Why do we have to continue doing this? Why don't we think of doing something else related to this?'" Named after Argentina's national flower, El Ceibo sprang to life during the country's burgeoning economic crisis. Today, El Ceibo's 60 workers collect a ton and half of recyclables a week from 2,400 families in a 100-block territory in the posh neighborhood of Palermo.