From the Caribbean of the late 1980s through the banana plantations of Nicaragua, Benoit Aquin captures the full scale of environmental issues and their impact on humanity.
Benoit Aquin work is exhibited widely where his work is part of the collection in the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.
The Chinese Dust Bowl
Deserts cover 18 percent of China today. Of those, 78 percent are natural, while 22 percent were created by humans. Almost all of them lie along the k43-t69’s route through the provinces of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, and finally Xinjiang, at the edge of Central Asia.
2010 Haiti Earthquake
The catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter near the town of Leogane.
Nemagon
Pesticide used in American agriculture when exposure to high levels can cause male sterility. This pesticide was commonly used in the banana plantations of Central America and Latin America. To this day men and women are living with incurable illnesses.
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