Siegfried Modola, Shortlisted Photographer for the Climate Visuals Photography Award
WHAT IT SHOWS: A woman wearing a face mask to protect herself from air pollution walks along railway tracks in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 2019. The city has one of the worst quality of air on earth where dust, fumes and smoke can cause irreversible chronic respiratory diseases, lung cancer, heart complications or brain damage.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, residents have been facing an ever increasing environmental disaster as its surrounding rivers have been chocked by unprecedented levels of industrial and human waste in one of the most densely populated cities in the world, with its surrounding area encompassing over 18 million people. The city has one of the worst quality of air on earth where dust, fumes and smoke can cause irreversible chronic respiratory diseases.