Gentrification air
This project documents through an ethnographic comic how air pollution becomes entangled with everyday life. By following the stories of three people in one of Cuenca’s most polluted streets, I show how urban expansion and gentrification sit against precarious work and limited mobility. El Vado was a neighborhood marked by poverty, limited infrastructure and street-level drug dealing until the end of the 20th century, but even then, local craftsmen and neighbors came together to limit growing air pollution through local advocacy.