This image was created by the ethnographer during a fieldtrip. The composition is strong I think, as the space opens up in front of the viewer - drawing your eye to the figures in the photo. The scientist (although they could be anyone, in theory, we only know this or assume this because we are told of three people walking to the field site) stride ahead - one looking down and one looking ahead. Not waiting for you. The grey cloud that hangs over the silhouette of the person hand loading sand into the lorry is very portentous.
I do not understand this question. I cannot provide an answer to this.
The visualization seems to be saying that toxic places and things can be hidden from view but a consequence of multiple industrial processes.
The image shows the beginning of a toxic discovery preceded by a local human intervention. In this case, the mining of sea sand by locals represents a direct impact on nature, which introduces us to discover toxicity even on the deep nature far away from its common sources as a result of our consumption.
This is an original photograph from a coastline in Panama where the author found extractive activities on the way to the mangrove forest. The darkness of the image contrasts with the background activities and gives a notion about the following context related to the toxicity present in this place.
Although at first sight, the image shows a direct impact on nature, it would be helpful to allocate three or four small photos at one side about plastics or toxic detriments on the coastline. This can be helpful to trace the line with the following photos about plastic toxicity.
Toxicity is related to any place, daily life is surrounded by contaminant activities and pollutants are part of population activities necessary to survive in the current economy.
This caption sets the stage for what promises to be an interesting journey, and the photograph has some intriguing elements--having read the description for the photo essay as a whole, I found myself squinting to see if the white debris scattered on the ground is organic or manmade. That said, I would have appreciated more of an effort to thematize the picture so as to tie together its various elements or make the most important ones especially salient in the mind of the reader.
The image is disurbingly easy on the eyes, stray plastic bottles, the rubber slipper, all carpeting the forest floor in an unhealthy balance with the roots and leaves of the mangrove forest. The tidal interplay of land, river and sea, is as much of an ecological marvel as it is a route for plastic, and as an extension the reach of human activity, that equally governs natural ecosystems.
