Website: http://www.brettcolephotography.com/?search=air+pollution

Brett Cole is an American Photographer who does Social work in India and focuses on Social and Environmental issues in India.

He is dedicated to helping people, nature and animals by raising awareness through his work in photography. He has made of 15,000 photographs during his time working in India and has completed many projects on Snow, Air Pollution and on Conservation.

Brett Cole’s project on Air Pollution focuses on Smog primarily as it is something that damages the health of many people in India and China as well. It has caused problems with breathing and can cause fatal asthma attacks. His photos are not the most interesting and well composed but they do put across an important message to the world and show the reality of living in India which in some places is as polluted as China. The media often ignores pollution when it comes to India and China because  they know they are the worst affected and do not want to make the world aware of the problems that the developed world is causing. India and China are the worlds dumping grounds yet they made us products which we could not live without such as spices, food and technology. Photographer wouldn’t have a job if it wasn’t for the Japanese and Chinese inventing new cameras and Apple is based in China yet we still decide to not help them and let them swim in polluted waters, have E-waste pilled as high as mountains and let smog take over the sky and make it difficult to breathe. Personally, i find Brett Cole’s work interesting but it does live up to the standards of a professional photographer which i think he is not well known and he focuses more on raising awareness rather than the composition of his images.

This is one of my favourite photos because it shows how smog can completely take over a city and make it vanish into thin air. The lower houses aren’t as affected by it but the high rise buildings are completely surrounded by Smog. People usually have to keep windows shut down Smog periods for their own health and this makes it difficult to live due to the high temperatures soaring during summer. This photo almost seems like an image which has been superimposed as they do not look like that are part of the same village because there is a juxtaposition between poverty and riches, poor housing to tall 35 story buildings. With this image, your eyes are first drawn to the buildings which are clear of the smog as they stand out but then your eyes drift towards the buildings which are partially hidden by the smog. It is a very interesting images with two different lives and weather split in half.