Burial Of Unknown Child, 1984
BHOPAL
Arriving in Bhopal in the morning of 3 December; Raghu Rai could not even imagine the extent of the damage. During the night, in this city 600 km south of Delhi, a pesticide factory belonging to the American company Union Carbide had blown up, releasing 40 tonnes of methyl isocyanate into the atmosphere. In just a few hours 8,000 people died, with the death toll ultimately reaching 20,000. One of Raghu Rai’s photos, “Burial of an Unknown Child” quickly became the symbol of the greatest industrial disaster the world has so far known. Rai returned to Bhopal in 2002 to photograph the survivors living in a shantytown on the edge of the still-toxic site and suffering from diseases caused by the fumes. In conjunction with Greenpeace, in 2002 the published Exposure – Portrait of a Corporate Crime.
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Mohammad Arif, Survivor Of Gas Tragedy, 2002
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Man Carrying His Dead Wife, 1984
Abundant Union Carbide Plant, 1984
Ghous Mohammad, Survivor Of Gas Tragedy, 2002
The Cremation Man, 2001
Swaraj Puri – The Officer In Charge Of Law And Order, 2002
Stationary Centre For Gas Victims Being Run By State Government, 2002
Protest, 2001
Wanted For Homicide, 2001
Sacks full Of Skulls, 2001
Victim Of Gas Leak, 2001
Gangaram – Victim Of Gas Leak, 2001
Nanko – Victim Of Gas Leak, 2001
Rubeda Banu And Her Three Sons – Survivor Of Gas Leak, 2001
Devchand – Victim Of Gas Leak, 2001
Born On The Day Of Toxic Gas Leak – She Was Named Gas Devi, 2002
Mohammad Khan Mourns In The Cemetery, 2001
Widows Colony, 2002
Hasan Ali And His Daughters, Survivor Of Gas Tragedy, 2002