GARBAGE COLLECTOR, MARCH

PHOTO BY DANNY FULGENCIO

“Storage Wars Texas” star and Preston Hollow resident Jenny Grumbles loves junk. She scours thrift stores, roadsides and repossessed storage units for trash that — with a little bit of elbow grease and a few coats of paint — she turns into treasure. Given her penchant for garbage, the McCommas Bluff Landfill seemed like the perfect place for a photo shoot. But convincing the City of Dallas to let us stomp around one of its landfills with cameras wasn’t so easy. Advocate photo editor Danny Fulgencio called the Sanitation Services department and remembers pleading, “I’m not a muckraker All I want is to take a beautiful photo of a beautiful woman in a landfill.” His wish was granted. (It helped that the assistant director with whom he spoke has a journalist daughter and was sympathetic to his plight.)