Vik Muniz used his talent in art to show the lives of the hidden people at Jardim Gramacho, the largest landfill in the world. At Jardim Gramacho people who want to earn a decent wage but have nowhere to go come to pick trash for a living. Althouh some like Valtor are proud of their humble work others such as Isis have a hard time dealing with their situation. Vik pays a few of the pickers to come and help him create his art masterpieces made entirely oof trash they themselves have picked. These people are temporarily removed from all the chaos and filth that comes witht their job and are placed inside of a quiet art studio. As their worlds alter and they step back and look at the other things life has to offer there is questioning as to whether or not it is moral to only temporarily remove someone from reality then suddenly take them back to what they know best.
Vik and his wife both argued over this ethical reasoning and I am on Vik's side. The people he choose had all been through some traumatic times and I believe they deserved a break. Vik's wife is right that it is unfair to give someone hope and happiness and then suddenly take it away. However i believe that it was the people choice and they all wanted a moment of something better, even if it couldnt last forever. This is possibly the best thing that couldve ever appened to these people. When given a glimpse of something in life thats better than what you have to go through you generally tend to find anyway possible to exceed your own standards of life and become something youve dreamed of. This is exactly what happened to some of the people Vik used in his artwork. Isis herself came from this experience and said "I don't see myself as trash anymore. I don't want to go back to the garbage.". Vik provided a sense of worthiness to these people and they were now more than just the trash they picked.
