Children and Coal
This image makes a personal connection between a large-scale climate cause and identifiable individual subjects, which our research suggests is a powerful way of making the link in the viewer's mind.
Panos Pictures
Rights Managed
WHAT IT SHOWS: Children from the Presbyterian church school in Jowai, India place stones on the ground to mark the border of their land in an attempt to prevent the coal depot from encroachment. The children must weave their way through the piles of coal that stand between the school and the road. When the children reach 12 years of age they are often pulled out of school to work in the mines.
Photo by
Suzanne Lee
Principles:
Tell new stories