Berehulak was commissioned by the New York times to shoot a series of images which portrayed the pollution and sanitation and how it may affect children in India. He called the series of images "The Perils of Poor Sanitation in India". This is a good example of modern day documentary photography where the photographer has been sent over to another country on commission to tell a story through their images for the newspaper.
This is one of the images within his series. We can clearly see here the poverty within the area and the shocking conditions in which people have to work in in India. The image has been shot digitally and then slightly enhanced later. The composition of the image works very well as we start by focusing on the man and then our eyes travel around the image to the woman in the back ground and the boat.
I really admire these images as the context is not easy to look at in the sense that a lot of the people in the images are young children and the living conditions are horrible. The lighting and compositions within the images are very interesting as many of them have been taken at night and the sky is a very strong blue colour, I feel that tis creates a contrast in the images as it gives a symbol of luxury as the weather is nice but the conditions are not.
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