Striking photos show a decade of environmental decline along the Ganges
There's a dreamlike
quality to Giulio Di Sturco's photograph of Hindus preparing to bathe in the
Ganges. Taken in soft morning light, the image shows devotees assembled by the
river, their figures artfully reflected in its still, sacred waters.
Giulio Di Sturco
A closer inspection
reveals a bleak reality, however: The riverbank is strewn with trash and,
according to the Italian photographer, the golden haze is the result of toxic air pollution. This contrast between
beauty and horror is a recurring theme in Di Sturco's decade-long project to
photograph the length of the Ganges and the surrounding basin. What appears, at
first glance, to be an iceberg, is revealed to be chemical waste from factories
on the Yamuna River, a major tributary of the Ganges; another image shows a
cotton candy-covered landscape that is, in fact, coated in industrial
byproducts from leather tanneries outside Kolkata.....
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