LA CHINAMPERÍA

LA CHINAMPERÍA

Mat Hay is a documentary and commercial photographer, film maker, and

visual artist from Edinburgh, working throughout Scotland and

internationally, focussing on rural culture, communities, industries, and the

environment.

For more than one thousand years, Chinamperos have farmed the shallows

of Lake Xochimilco, helping transform the Valley of Mexico into the

nation’s capital and one of the world’s megacities. But the city’s growth is

now destroying their community and its valuable resources, especially its

water, which the city increasingly needs as it faces the collapse of its own

water supply. And an organic ancestral farming system that could feed

millions of people is disappearing. Being replaced by illegal housing,

football pitches, tourism, and pollution. Can a new generation of farmers

and scientists help save this vital wetland and UNESCO World Heritage site?

To learn more about this story please go to  www.mat-hay.com.

The creation of this project was made possible thanks to the generosity

and guidance of the Chinampero community.

The project is supported by Creative Scotland

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