The images are part of a worldwide documentary started in 2008 called Life Project. The main project’s goal is to find and document positive initiatives related to access to health and quality of life around the world.
China is highly industrialized and has been modernized over the past years, reducing poverty in the country and improving people’s lifestyle. However, being one of the biggest potencies of the world has its price: China is also one of the most polluted places in the earth due to industries, factories and mines producing all over its land.
Across the country, many villages are named cancer villages because more than 50% of deaths are caused by cancer. The pollution is affecting the air, water and land of these towns and, consequently, people’s lives. China’s government tries to restrain information regarding cancer villages to international communities – government agents followed the photographer during his journey.