In 1890, pioneering photojournalist Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York. The book engendered widespread disgust and embarrassment about the conditions in which New York's tenement-dwellers lived, helping create political momentum to clean up the slums and improve the living standards of America's poorest residents.
A Chinese photographer, Lu Guang, just won a major prize for his documentary project Pollution in China. Will this become China's How the Other Half Lives?
A warning before you click through: many of these pictures are highly disturbing.
A Chinese photographer, Lu Guang, just won a major prize for his documentary project Pollution in China. Will this become China's How the Other Half Lives?
A warning before you click through: many of these pictures are highly disturbing.
Nice post - pollution pictures ..Keep Posting
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pollution pictures