Teenagers burning cables
Telling a new story is crucial to remaking the visual representation of climate change. This looks like a normal everyday scene except that the melting permafrost has altered the bike path.
Alamy
Rights Managed
WHAT IT SHOWS: Teenage boys burn cables from computers and other electronics to recover copper near the Agbogboloshie slum in Accra, Ghana on Tuesday January 20, 2009. Every year, tons of used electronics from industrialized nations are dumped in countries like Ghana, where people salvage what they can sell and discard or destroy the rest.
Photo by
Olivier Asselin
Principles:
Show 'real people', not staged photo-ops
Tell new stories