All images and text © Kevin Moloney


Street dogs gather in Ushuaia, Argentina, where a century of intermittent economic booms have drawn thousands of immigrants to rapidly developed neighborhoods. With them have come waste management problems, pollution, and thousands of abandoned pets that often kill regional wildlife to survive.



City crews in Ushuaia, Argentina, prepare to pave a dirt track in an fast-growing neighborhood. The peaks of the Sampaio range of Chile's nearby Hoste Island loom over the boom and bust development of Ushuaia, the growth of which was first fueled by an Argentine prison at the end of the 19th century, then by naval bases, free trade zones and now tourism.



Children play in an Ushuaia yard, building dog houses with wind-blown cardboard and making guns from discarded plastic foam packing materials. Growing consumer culture is rapidly outpacing sanitation infrastructure in the towns of Tierra del Fuego. A sour national economy in Argentina means garbage disposal and littering laws are poorly enforced by a cash-starved regional government.



A Fueguino boy runs through a vacant lot next to his family's simple home in Ushuaia. Many move to the region hoping for quick economic success before returning home to towns elsewhere in Argentina or Chile. Arriving with an attitude of impermanence, migrants hastily construct poor housing in unplanned neighborhoods.


All images and text © Kevin Moloney

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