The winner of this year’s Photography4Humanity prize is Indian photographer Apratim Pal, for his picture “A Thirsty Earth”, which captures both the environmental and human costs of the escalating climate crisis in West Bengal, India.
Read the full story, “From the Field: Picturing a thirsty earth”, on globalissues.org →
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