Workshopx
Alex Masi
© Alex Masi
Join our documentary photography workshop with Alex Masi.
20-26 September in Krakow, Poland.
Alex will join workshopx team to hold an intensive, week-long educational project. This will be a great opportunity to gain essential experience while working on a real-life assignment and learn how to efficiently manage your future long-term projects.
Alex Masi started his professional career in 2006. Extensively investigating and photographing humanitarian and socio-environmental issues in South Asia and the Middle East, he quickly became one of the most active, renowned and awarded photojournalists of the young generation.
Application deadline: 30 Aug 2015.
Learn more: bit.ly/Alex_Masi_in_Krakow
Caption:
Rashid Ali, 35, is speaking on his mobile phone while hugging his son Rahil Ali, 7, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder, in their home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Rahil lives with his father and his mute and deaf grandmother, Bano Bi Ali, 70, in a small, single room his father rents inside a larger house. Rahil's mother left the family three years ago, his father says, because of the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India. She took with her Rahil's two siblings, a sister now aged 6 and a brother aged 3, and remarried. In the past, Rashid and his now ex-wife had no choice but to feed the family on contaminated water for a period about six years, in which all three children were born. But while his siblings appear to be healthy to this day, Rahil was diagnosed with torch infection and Lissencephaly after a CT scan was made of his brain soon after his birth. The latter disorder is incurable, and children in similar conditions to Rahil's have a average life expectancy of less than ten years.
Bhopal, India 2012
Alex Masi
© Alex Masi
Join our documentary photography workshop with Alex Masi.
20-26 September in Krakow, Poland.
Alex will join workshopx team to hold an intensive, week-long educational project. This will be a great opportunity to gain essential experience while working on a real-life assignment and learn how to efficiently manage your future long-term projects.
Alex Masi started his professional career in 2006. Extensively investigating and photographing humanitarian and socio-environmental issues in South Asia and the Middle East, he quickly became one of the most active, renowned and awarded photojournalists of the young generation.
Application deadline: 30 Aug 2015.
Learn more: bit.ly/Alex_Masi_in_Krakow
Caption:
Rashid Ali, 35, is speaking on his mobile phone while hugging his son Rahil Ali, 7, a boy suffering from a severe neurological disorder, in their home in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous 1984 gas tragedy. The poisonous cloud that enveloped Bhopal left everlasting consequences that today continue to consume people's lives. Rahil lives with his father and his mute and deaf grandmother, Bano Bi Ali, 70, in a small, single room his father rents inside a larger house. Rahil's mother left the family three years ago, his father says, because of the hardship and stigma associated to birth defects in India. She took with her Rahil's two siblings, a sister now aged 6 and a brother aged 3, and remarried. In the past, Rashid and his now ex-wife had no choice but to feed the family on contaminated water for a period about six years, in which all three children were born. But while his siblings appear to be healthy to this day, Rahil was diagnosed with torch infection and Lissencephaly after a CT scan was made of his brain soon after his birth. The latter disorder is incurable, and children in similar conditions to Rahil's have a average life expectancy of less than ten years.
Bhopal, India 2012