Alex Ng This is a simple and concise photograph: a girl in the wilderness and a bucket of murky water. The composition is straightforward, the lighting soft, yet behind it lies an extraordinary and troubling story. The most captivating element is the girl’s helpless gaze into the camera, which touches the heart of every viewer. In the lower diagonal of the frame sits that bucket of cloudy water—hard to imagine it is the drinking water she must carry away, heavily polluted and prompting deep concern for the people who live here.
Deep and drinking water in Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province, in addition to contaminated soil, is also contaminated with eight heavy elements, which means genocide in this region in the near future.