This photo essay captures Delhi’s deadly shades of grey as the city stepped into 2017 choked with smog.
Delhi: The Toxic City
Photographer(s): Alice Rowsome
Tag Archives | pollution
Plastic Pollution in Indonesia
Indonesia, the world’s second biggest contributor to plastic waste in the oceans, is in a state of emergency with regard to waste problems.
Photographer(s): Yuan Adriles
Tommaso Rada | Caribbean Illusion
In 1941 in Tuscany nearby a small village named Rosignano, Solvay built a factory for the production of chemical products derived from NaCl.
Photographer(s): Tommaso Rada
Park Life
City parks are places for refreshment. People come here to seek solitude and breathe fresh air – indeed it gives urban people a sense of openness. With the rapid urbanization of Dhaka city, greenery is diminishing day by day.
Photographer(s): Mohammad Rakibul Hasan
Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni | Death metal
The factory of ILVA in Taranto is a 12.000 employees steel factory. In the recent months a police investigation discovered that the factory has been polluting, with dioxin and several others carcinogenic chemicals…
Will Berridge | The tale of the copper town
Day and night freight trains depart the town of Alaverdi in Northern Armenia with a cargo of pure copper and slowly make their way across the nearby Georgian border…
Photographer(s): Will Berridge
Valentino Bellini | Akwatia: bodies at work
Ghana is a country rich in natural resources, especially of gold, which is extracted with bare hands by a lowcost labor force, to be sold at competitive prices on the international market.
Photographer(s): Valentino Bellini
Ole Elfenkämper | Rape of growth
Dilapidated industrial plants, a lack of sewage plants and high air pollution burden the environment. Cities like Ballsh, Patos or Elbasan in central Albania reveal the extent of the lack of environmental awareness and the indifference of big company’s.
Photographer(s): Ole Elfenkämper
Stephen JB Kelly | Qi Lihe district
Qi Lihe district sits awkwardly on the outskirts of Lanzhou, the most destitute area of this heavily polluted industrial city in northwest China.
Photographer(s): Stephen JB Kelly
Max Sher | Magnitka
Magnitogorsk or Magnitka, a Russian mill town of 420,000 people is one of the most polluted places on Earth. Founded in 1929 at the behest of Stalin, the Magnitogorsk steel mill was originally modelled on the US steel cities of Gary and Pittsburgh.
Photographer(s): Max Sher
