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Related: About this forum"Particulate Matter" - Weirdly Beautiful Photo Essay On Chinese Cities Disappearing In Smog - WP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484AQI 360, Shiziazhuang. (Benedikt Partenheimer)
China is disappearing into a haze of pollution. In the capital, its a life-or death situation, as Beijings mayor bluntly put it in January. In February, he went so far as to declare his city unlivable.
Everyone must decide for himself if he wants to care about something, artist Benedikt Partenheimer told In Sight. Partenheimers photographs Particulate Matter call attention to Chinas decades-old air-pollution problem. Reducing air pollution could save millions of lives, Partenheimer said. I personally think that this is a very good reason to care.
In recent years, China has changed the way it talks about its pollution problem. The government publishes updates in real time on the degree of air pollution in the Air Quality Index (AQI). The index rates the smog labels such as good, unhealthy and hazardous.
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Of course one can feel the effects of air pollution, Partenheimer said about working on the project. He began Particulate Matter while he was an artist in residence in Shanghai. Partenheimer shot the project with an analog camera on a tripod which forced him to work slowly but he said that it allowed him to work deliberately and precisely. Partenheimer said photography is just another way to examine and to explore the world and to critically engage with it. While working on the project he wore a mask but said after a few hours outside I would always have this strange, kind of metallic taste in my mouth.
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AQI 400, Shanghai. (Benedikt Partenheimer)
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"Particulate Matter" - Weirdly Beautiful Photo Essay On Chinese Cities Disappearing In Smog - WP (Original Post)
hatrack
Mar 2015
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. I think he may be making a point that the sun cannot be seen.
Ghastly environment.
ahhh..here it is...on the web site. "AQI 350, a picture of the Sun."
brer cat
(24,565 posts)2. That is very frightening, hatrack.
The citizens have to be suffering horribly trying to breath through that pollution.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)3. A sobering thought about that..
either the people who live/work there will die en masse or they will develop an immunity of a sort. If it's the former, perhaps the government is looking to reduce the population in a short period of time.