2nd Place winner
The environment is in danger
DESCRIPTION
One of the biggest problems that regards our time is the pollution and its impact on the natural environment.With the birth of the firsts multinational that use more and more plastic and synthetic materials for their products, have increased inevitably the problems of its disposal.
Some of the third worlds countries doesn't have the knowledge about how to dispose the garbage in a responsible manner, and this brings to the formation of a true waste mountains that invades and affects the cities and the surrounding environment in which the people lives, from the air to the water that they drink, causing diseases brought from the many bacterias due to the pollution.
AUTHOR
Giacomo d'Orlando is an Italian documentary photographer currently based in New Zealand. He begun his career of professional photographer in 2011, when he was 21, working for a photographic studio in his born city, Verona.
After more than 3 years spent in the advertising photography industry, he decided to follow his true passion, the documentary photography. For this purpose, in 2015 he decided to move to Nepal where he begun his first long-term project about the Gender Based Violence. Since that time he specialize himself documenting social issues and environmental problems while occasionally is working for travel magazines.
In the last years he has been living in Nepal, Peru, Austrlia and now is currently living in New Zealand, where is carrying on a long term project about the Refugees of the Climate Change.
His purpose is report the social and environmental issues that our world is going through nowadays, giving to the people who don’t have the chance to travel the chance to raise their awareness about these important topics.
