The Night Shift, Ship Breaking Yards, Bangladesh.

The dangerous night shift in the toxic ship-breaking yards of Bangladesh. Workers cutting ships into pieces with oxy-acetylene torches, carrying heavy sheets of metal as teams off to be recycled. With few if any environmental or worker’s protection laws and cheap labour, the area is left toxic with asbesto, lead and fuels leaking from the ships that have come here to die over the years. When sparks connect with toxins it can causes explosions, killing several workers at a time. You’ll see the workers without protective clothing or proper equipment, some even without shoes, as they work their jobs. Over twenty ship-breaking yards dot the Bangladesh coastline, an industrial wasteland of epic proportions.