Scrappers

Lomography and analog film are integral to Scrappers, a documentary in photographs of the rise of urban armies of the poor and low income devoted to a new economic boom in scrap metal.

The author and photographer, business and economics journalist Steve Bennish, explores one of the darkest corners of globalization in the United States.

Scrap metal is among America’s top exports in an age of downward mobility, deep industrial decline, and political drift, indecision and rancor.

This book offers a vision of what we are becoming as a nation.

It is also a glimpse of a grim future we still have a chance to avoid.