Sitting in the burning garbage of an open landfill. It is a distressing image that of a bear photographed in Canada by Troy Moth, which leaves a bad taste in the mouth and shows once again, the cry for help of nature destroyed by the hand of man.
Sitting in the burning garbage of an open landfill. It is a bleak image that of a bear photographed in Canada by Troy Moth, which leaves a bad taste in the mouth and shows once again, the cry for help of nature destroyed by the hand of man.
A photo that has been around the world, which makes tenderness on the one hand, anger on the other. A bear with air confused and disoriented he is sitting on a bed of garbage. An almost surreal scene, where plastic bottles, bags and waste of all kinds surround him.
Behind the burning forest, he resignedly rummages for food. The scene was immortalized in an open landfill by the Canadian photographer, who was in a community in Ontario, Canada, to shoot a documentary.
Troy Moth did not expect to be faced with such a situation, in fact he was unable to take his picture right away.
“Once I got to that incredible place, I couldn't shoot. The next day I went back, I was more prepared to face that situation ”, she writes on Instagram.
The Canadian photographer was, as we said, in an Ontario community to shoot a documentary, but what impressed him the most was an entire valley. invaded by waste. Where there was supposed to be wilderness there was total destruction.
“I cried when I took the picture, I cried when I worked on it. And again I cried many times when I thought back to that moment. It's definitely the most heartbreaking photograph I've ever taken, ”continues Moth.
The shot was called ‘Invisible Horseman – 2017’, or the invisible horseman, with a clear reference to the horsemen of the apocalypse., the reason is always explained in an Instagram post.
“Il apocalypse theme it is very evident in this photograph. I felt it when I took the camera and took the picture. I was in an isolated place, there was nothing for miles and miles, just waste and nature. At that moment I realized how far away everything was from us, how everything was actually invisible to human eyes ".
Invisible Horseman, 2017. – This is the most heartbreaking image I’ve ever made. I teared up when shooting it, again when editing it, and on several occasions just thinking about it. I’ve waited nearly a month to post it as I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I do know i’ll never forget this moment, and what happened to that bear afterwards, which I was too stunned to photograph.
A post shared by Troy Moth (@troymoth) on Aug 29, 2017 at 09:01 am PDT
Other sad pollution scenarios:
- SWIMMING IN PLASTIC OCEANS (PHOTO)
- THE TERRIBLE IMAGES OF PLASTIC BALLOONS THAT ARE KILLING ANIMALS (AND POLLUTING THE OCEANS)
And this image sadly reminds us of others, such as that of the photographer's disturbing scenarios Nick Pumphrey who during a trip to Nusa Lembongan, off the coast of Bali, saw the problem of plastic pollution up close or that of Justin Hoffman, among the finalists of the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2017 competition: a seahorse dragging a pink cotton swab.
Shots symbolic of a Planet that can't take it anymore.
Dominella Trunfio
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