Special places archive
February 2006
Chittagong shipbreaking yards
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Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of shipbreaking in Bangladesh evoke the scale and danger of this business.
Edward Burtynsky, Shipbreaking #11, Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2000
See also: An article by William Langewiesche describes the shipbreaking that employs thousands of workers at Alang in the Indian state of Gujarat, and puts it in a global commercial context. Also, a photo essay by Brendan Corr in Foreign Policy magazine.